More than Rhetoric Needed to Close Broadband Gap

January 31, 2008 On January 30, 2008, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration released Networked Nation: Broadband in America, a report that concludes that "a reasonable assessment of the available data indicates" that President Bush's 2004 objective of affordable access to broadband for all by 2007 has been realized "to a very great degree." The Administration's "mission Accomplished" rhetoric does not match reality.