Genachowski Pushes Mobile Broadband

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski says one way to help change the nation's status as a broadband laggard among industrialized nations is to deploy 4G wireless networks as quickly as possible.

During an on-stage interview June 2 at The Wall Street Journal's D8 tech conference, Chairman Genachowski acknowledged that Americans pay too much for broadband service that is slower than what exists in other advanced nations. Worst of all, a recent survey of 40 industrialized nations ranks the U.S. at the bottom in terms of the speed in which it is moving to improve the situation. "That's the canary in the coal mine," Genachowski told WSJ tech reporter Walt Mossberg. To help fix the problem, Genachowski said the nation had to continue to focus on deploying 4G wireless networks as quickly as possible. The U.S. was one of the first nations to start deploying the successor to today's 3G networks.