AT&T targets 100% broadband coverage - Telecom News Wire
June 8, 2009
WASHINGTON -- AT&T* today set an ambitious target and timeline of 100 percent broadband by 2014 in a filing before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Recognizing that broadband is a path to job creation, economic recovery and a way to achieve important societal goals, such as energy independence and better health care delivery, the formal process of developing a national broadband plan began today at the FCC.
"A successful national broadband plan should aim for an Internet that is universal, open, private and safe. It should also foster an environment in which all participants in the Internet ecosystem have the incentive to continue the massive investments required to create more bandwidth, compelling content and applications that will make everyone in the United States want to be connected. Skill and leadership will be required to promote and balance these competing principles," said AT&T's Senior Vice-President of Federal Regulatory, Robert Quinn. "And, while these issues can be complicated, every proposal coming before the FCC should be filtered through one simple but critical lens: how will this action increase broadband adoption or expand broadband access for every American -- in other words, how will it get us to 100 percent broadband..."
WASHINGTON -- AT&T* today set an ambitious target and timeline of 100 percent broadband by 2014 in a filing before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Recognizing that broadband is a path to job creation, economic recovery and a way to achieve important societal goals, such as energy independence and better health care delivery, the formal process of developing a national broadband plan began today at the FCC.
"A successful national broadband plan should aim for an Internet that is universal, open, private and safe. It should also foster an environment in which all participants in the Internet ecosystem have the incentive to continue the massive investments required to create more bandwidth, compelling content and applications that will make everyone in the United States want to be connected. Skill and leadership will be required to promote and balance these competing principles," said AT&T's Senior Vice-President of Federal Regulatory, Robert Quinn. "And, while these issues can be complicated, every proposal coming before the FCC should be filtered through one simple but critical lens: how will this action increase broadband adoption or expand broadband access for every American -- in other words, how will it get us to 100 percent broadband..."
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