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June 05, 2008, 03:30 PM ET
Senator Prepares Legislation to Support Broadband Fund
In January, Educause, a higher-education technology group, presented a white paper that argued for a federal fund to build broadband networks. It would support the delivery of data to computers in all homes and businesses at a speed of at least 100 megabits per second by 2012. (The delivery speed of most cable modem providers is three to 10 megabits per second.) The group estimated that such networks would cost about $100-billion to build. And they proposed that one-third of the money would come from the federal government, one-third from the states, and the remaining third from the private and/or public sector.
The plan appears to be gaining traction in Congress. Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, is crafting legislation that would codify Educause’s proposal, “A Blueprint for Big Broadband”.
Educause has long been pushing for faster and cheaper broadband networks to support distance education and research.—Andrea L. Foster
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