FCC Promises Open Process on National Broadband Strategy

Interim Federal Communications Commission Chair Michael Copps was clearly feeling his oats on Tuesday at the government’s “kickoff” of its national broadband campaign. “The years of broadband drift and growing digital divides are coming to an end,” Copps told the gathering at the Department of Commerce’s main auditorium.

“Too few consumers and small businesses in this country have the high-speed broadband they need if they’re going to succeed,” he added, and so “today we say: ‘Enough.’ We mobilize and we begin to build.” Also attending this digital pep rally was Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and a small platoon of reps from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

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