By Andrew Noyes (2.7.07)
http://njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-ZCQL1170792302989.html
In the next few years, House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey wants his subcommittee to "fashion together a policy blueprint" that includes broadband that is affordable and fast, with an open architecture that supports Internet freedom.
The FCC counts as broadband any speed of more than 200 kilobits per second, or one-fifth of one megabit per second, he said. Japanese homes can receive up to 100 megabits per second. In a number of other benchmarks, the United States also trails the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Australia and Canada.
The agenda of Markey's panel in the 110th Congress "will be the unfinished business" that got stuck in previous legislative sessions, he said. The subcommittee will look at strengthening the e-rate program, which subsidizes Internet access in schools and libraries, and will discuss ways that all Americans can get broadband access.
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