Simple, justifiable bandwidth goals for America

After yesterday's piece on how defining broadband based on 3Mbps down 1Mbps up is inadequate, I want to share more specific thoughts on the kinds of bandwidth goals American should be setting.

An important first step is to realize that we should have at least two tiers: baseline served and fully served. Baseline served refers to the lowest level at which we consider a network to be delivering broadband. This is also the level that 100% of Americans (or as close as possible) should have access to...