It looks like the FCC has finally taken it upon themselves to start a National Broadband Plan. For years we've been lacking in basic broadband coverage and broadband quality (speed speed speed). [Wired Article]
Australia already has a huge plan to spend almost double we will. It's about time we kick some aussie ass. Obama has earmarked up to $7.2 billion after it was found that we were ranked 17 in broadband penetration out of the entire world!
Hopefully this will somehow simultaneously kill Time Warner's monopolistic practice of tiered pricing. I would LOVE to see 100mbps connections straight into residential houses which would give us streaming HD media on demand. We'd no longer need 5 different connections to our house (phone, cable, internet, satellite, plumbing [okay we may need this one still but I'm hoping the internet solves that]).
