Tag: NATIONALBROADBANDPLAN

In good news from the Census Bureau, broadband Internet has spread across the U.S. like wildfire. We may still be paying more for slower speeds, but it appears that access to the Internet, and particularly broadband, is actually increasing at an incredible rate. According to the latest Census Bureau report, as cited in USA Today, 62-percent of Americans have Internet access in the home, up from ...

Hey, what do you know? All those meetings over the proposed National Broadband Plan has amounted to something: a "yeah, we should probably hit this up." Today, the FCC has kicked off an immensely ambitious project to bring "high-speed internet access to every corner of the United States." $7.2 billion of the economic stimulus package has already been allocated for the task, but it'll be ages ...