NTIA's Report on Pres. Bush's Broadband Pledge
Jan 31, 2008
According to the Associated Press, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is releasing a report today called Networked Nation: Broadband in America that offers "an upbeat assessment of the administration's efforts to spur growth and competition in the high-speed Internet market" following President Bush's oft-cited 2004 pledge to deliver affordable universal broadband to all Americans by 2007.
Asked if that goal has been met, Richard Russell of the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy, is quoted as saying, "The answer is by most metrics yes...However, there's still a lot more that needs to be done." [Note: Ambassador Russell will discuss national broadband strategy at Tech Policy Summit in March.]
The report, which we haven't had a chance to read yet, relies in part on the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) controversial data that indicates broadband service is available in over 99 percent of all U.S. zip codes. The House has already passed a bill to require the FCC to improve its data collection, and NTIA acting chief Meredith Attwell Baker acknowledged that additional data was required.
The full AP article is available here.
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broadband, President Bush
