03-15-06, 07:19 PM
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Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration on "Anything he can find"
I'm sure glad he brought this up... as this has to be the biggest problem facing America now. Perhaps he could make a 5 point plan to fix the issue.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6049672.html
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of falling behind in its goal to make high-speed Internet service, known as broadband, universally available by 2007.
The Massachusetts Democrat said the Federal Communications Commission was holding up action that would allow companies to use extra airwaves in between television channels that were not being utilized.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, U.S. President George W. Bush set a target date of 2007 for making affordable high-speed Internet service universally available. Since then, he has not discussed the goal in detail.
"Despite the president's promise of ubiquitous broadband by 2007, we are clearly, now well into 2006, short of that goal," Kerry said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. "Only 40 percent of households in America have it."
"It seems, incredibly, the FCC is sitting on the rulemaking that will help correct this problem," Kerry said.
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Last edited by radimus; 03-15-06 at 09:51 PM.
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