BOUCHER WANTS TO IMPROVE AMERICA'S BROADBAND
[SOURCE: Public Knowledge, AUTHOR: John Bergmayer]
[Commentary] Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) gave the opening keynote at the Broadband
Policy Summit on June 7. He detailed a number of plans he thinks would help
improve broadband penetration in America: 1) He urged summit attendees to
contact their Congressional representatives to ask them to support his
Universal Service Reform Act of 2007 (HR 2054 see
http://www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/5674). 2) He would eliminate legal
barriers to municipal deployment of broadband, including municipal WiFi and
mesh networks. 3) He sees the pending agriculture bill as providing an
opportunity to reexamine funding for rural broadband deployment [see related
story below]. 4) He discussed the connection of telecommunications to possible
smart grid power systems, and discussed the potential of broadband over power
lines (BPL) for providing broadband competition. 5) He cited the example of
Connect Kentucky, which he believes has been a successful program for
increasing broadband deployment. He thinks that it is an example worthy of
emulation and for which a federal complement might be developed.
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