Broadband woes get streamlined look :: Scoop44

After being elected as a result of the most tech-savvy campaign ever, the Obama Administration is taking an ambitious new tack toward America’s online evolution.

Appropriating $7.2 billion in the Recovery Act stimulus package specifically for increasing broadband Internet infrastructure, President Obama said in a December Web address that ”it is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption … Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President — because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.”