Last night Democracy NOW ------FCC

[serryjw]

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The U.S continues to lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to affordable and accessible broadband service according to a new report by the media activist group Free Press, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union. The report also finds that contrary to the picture painted by the government, there is no sign that the digital divide in this country is closing.
The author of the report, S. Derek Turner said yesterday that, "President Bush set a goal of bringing universal, affordable high-speed Internet access to every household by 2007, We're nowhere close to reaching that goal. Yet the Federal Communications Commission seems content to ignore the problem, manipulate the data, and pretend we're moving forward."

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Let's talk about this report that is criticizing the FCC and Congress around broadband, saying that the United States is far behind, remains 16th in the world in broadband penetrationThe U.S. has the fourth highest level of students who have never used a computer, among these nations, exceeded only by Turkey, Slovakia and Mexico, and that population density is not a significant determinant of broadband penetration. The most important factors explaining the digital divide are household income and poverty.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/13/1331236

[pecwae]

1. K&R

The US is 4th highest for students having never used a computer! Yet another Bush failure. How many is that now?

[serryjw]

2. This is a great issue

Industry knows that they need computer educated people. If we are not educating and we don't increase the size of our (internet bandwidth) PIPES we are doomed internationally.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pipe.html