5 Things You Need to Know About President Obama’s Broadband Announcement

Here are five things you need to know about President Obama's announcement on municipal broadband:

1) Fiber optic Internet is really, really fast.
2) Cedar Falls (IA) has really, really fast fiber optic Internet. For everyone in town.
3) Fast, affordable Internet is about a lot more than watching movies or online gaming: Fast broadband can be a magnetic force for a local economy.
4) But it's not available all across the country: Around half the country's rural population cannot even get access at a quarter of the speed of Cedar Falls.
5) President Obama's announcements will help bring faster, cheaper Internet for more Americans.