Education Groups Urge Federal Government to Promote High-Speed Internet Access

By VINCENT KIERNAN

A group of higher-education organizations is calling for revisions in federal telecommunications law that would promote the extension of high-capacity broadband Internet connections throughout the country, stressing the benefits to research and education.

In a written statement issued last week, the organizations said the nation's goal should be to develop an Internet that can carry billions of bits of information every second -- far more than most segments of the Internet can