Geoff Daily

Finally, ten years into the 21st century, America will have a plan for encouraging the deployment, adoption, and utilization of broadband.

Recently, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski unveiled his "100 Squared" initiative, which sets the goal of America having 100 million households connected to 100Mbps by 2020. But what does that goal really mean?

The national broadband plan could spur broadband deployment on an ongoing basis. It starts with the idea of establishing broadband standards.

Measuring E-Rate's success based on how many classrooms are connected to the Internet is the wrong way to look at things. The real question is have we provided enough bandwidth.

Daily offers what he sees to be the key components to crafting a comprehensive, pragmatic solution for network neutrality.

Less than a fraction of the first round of the broadband stimulus funds have been awarded but now the second round is underway.

What kinds of questions should we be asking candidates to raise the profile of broadband?

Network neutrality is the Internet's Achilles' heel.

It is misguided to assume that public broadband projects hurt private enterprise.

We should count all bandwidth equally when defining the service level that broadband delivers. Rather than allowing providers to tout their downstream speeds in bold and hide their upstream, they should be required to most prominently display the total bandwidth they're providing.