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March 16th, 2010, 20:50
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Yesterday, the FCC submitted its National Broadband Plan to Congress (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/fcc-submits-national-broadband-plan-to-congress-at-least-100m-u/), essentially requesting that six goals be met over the next decade, including sizzlers like access for "every American" to "robust broadband services,"which apparently equals a minimum of 100 million US homes with "affordable" access to at least 100MBps down / 50Mbps up speeds. Pretty heady stuff, we know. We thought we'd contact a few of your friendly ISPs for comment, and we've got Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon going on record here -- all in all, they're rather predictable 'rah rahs' for the plan, especially considering that whole "affordable" bit. We also threw in part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's response. The statements are after the break, and hit the source links for the fuller, long-winded versions.
Continue reading FCC National Broadband Plan: some of your favorite ISPs respond (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/fcc-national-broadband-plan-some-of-your-favorite-isps-respond/)
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Yesterday, the FCC submitted its National Broadband Plan to Congress (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/fcc-submits-national-broadband-plan-to-congress-at-least-100m-u/), essentially requesting that six goals be met over the next decade, including sizzlers like access for "every American" to "robust broadband services,"which apparently equals a minimum of 100 million US homes with "affordable" access to at least 100MBps down / 50Mbps up speeds. Pretty heady stuff, we know. We thought we'd contact a few of your friendly ISPs for comment, and we've got Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon going on record here -- all in all, they're rather predictable 'rah rahs' for the plan, especially considering that whole "affordable" bit. We also threw in part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's response. The statements are after the break, and hit the source links for the fuller, long-winded versions.
Continue reading FCC National Broadband Plan: some of your favorite ISPs respond (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/fcc-national-broadband-plan-some-of-your-favorite-isps-respond/)
FCC National Broadband Plan: some of your favorite ISPs respond (http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/16/fcc-national-broadband-plan-some-of-your-favorite-isps-respond/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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