FCC's broadband update: Quality comes at a price

Washington — After digesting 26 workshops, testimony from 230 witnesses and nearly 41,000 pages of written comments, the Federal Communications Commission clearly sees a need for speed.

That was one remedy that emerged at a public meeting last week as the agency tries to craft a strategy for “delivery of universal, affordable, widely adopted broadband to serve vital national purposes” as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The national broadband plan is due to Congress by Feb. 17, 2010...