FCC uses tax dollars to tell us what we already know about broadband

Two days ago the FCC released the preliminary findings from its broadband task force. President Obama has directed the FCC to submit a national broadband plan to Congress by February 17, 2010 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The task at hand? Come up with the most efficient way to spend stimulus dollars to bolster the nation’s broadband infrastructure.

The report states a need to add broadband deployment, adoption, affordability, and technology to national priorities like health care, education and finance. The endgame, says the FCC, is to adopt and provide a policy of universal broadband...