The Next President Has To Be The First Broadband President (Or Why I'm Voting Obama)

[Commentary] It's inescapable that at least part of the reason the US lags behind other countries in the deployment and adoption of broadband has been the lack of leadership in the White House over the last eight years. While it's possible one can argue that the Bush Administration's hands-off policies didn't hurt anything given the growth that has been realized, it's also clear that it did very little to proactively help spur the kind of growth that's been realized in countries like South Korea, Japan, and Sweden. Broadband's available almost everywhere, but it's going to be a serious challenge reaching those last homes without it. Broadband's faster than ever, but we're lagging behind other countries with no real plan for how to catch up. Broadband's penetrated half of American homes, but it always takes more work to get the second half of subscribers than the first as you can no longer rely on early adopters finding their own way. Broadband's enabling all sorts of new opportunities to improve healthcare, education, government, and business, with many people relying on it more than ever, yet only through strong national leadership will we be able to take isolated success stories and find a way to extend them all across the country. If we are to reach the goal of 100% penetration, 100% adoption, and 100% use, we need someone to step up and say this is where we should be taking the country in the 21st century. And no one person or office has the potential to do that more than the President of the United States.
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