Boucher: Net Neutrality stalls Broadband Measure

BOUCHER: NET NEUTRALITY STALLS BROADBAND MEASURE
[SOURCE: FCW.com, AUTHOR: John Monroe]
The debate over network neutrality could be resolved if the United States were to follow the lead of Japan, Korea and other countries in ensuring that high-speed Internet access is widely available to the general population, said Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA). The net neutrality debate threatens to sink a telecommunications reform bill that would make it easier for state and local governments to extend broadband services to rural areas, said Rep Boucher, speaking Monday at the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovative Technology Symposium in Roanoke, Va. But this need not be the case, he said. The issue of net neutrality is really an issue of high-speed communications over "the last mile," Rep Boucher said. Although high-speed fiber-optic networks crisscross many regions of the country, a lot of people still have slower links for accessing those backbone networks.
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