FCC Chair sets 2020 broadband vision - Telecom News Analysis

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) still has another month to deliver its National Broadband Plan to Congress, but Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has already served up a key goal that's tied to the Plan's "2020 vision" to deliver 100-Mbit/s services to 100 million households.

Genachowski made mention of that "100 Squared" initiative today during a speech to the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners (NARUC) conference in Washington. But that stated goal shouldn't be all that hard to reach based on the current deployment status of Docsis 3.0 and other broadband technologies that can already achieve such speeds...