http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/opinion/24thu3.html?ref=opinion
What an awesome new proposal! I really hope the commissioners approve it since after all it is a high necessity and demand.
The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission to stop subsidizing rural phone lines and start subsidizing rural broadband connections is long overdue. Right now an estimated 14 million to 28 million Americans have no way of getting access to the Internet. Virtually all of the country’s rural areas now have access to land lines or cellphone coverage. The real deficit is access to high-speed broadband, which can also deliver phone service.
The proposal would direct the fund to provide incentives for companies to lay fiber-optic cable and digital switches to connect rural homes to the Internet at high speeds. They would also fix some serious inefficiencies in the way the fund is managed. The United States urgently needs a better communications network for the 21st century. The F.C.C. plan is a good one. The commissioners should approve it.
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