Kerry chides Bush administration on broadband

[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Jeremy Pelofsky]
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of falling behind in its goal to make high-speed Internet service, known as broadband, universally available by 2007. He said the Federal Communications Commission was holding up action that would allow companies to use extra airwaves in between television channels that were not being utilized. Despite the president's promise of ubiquitous broadband by 2007, we are clearly, now well into 2006, short of that goal," Kerry said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. "Only 40 percent of households in America have it. It seems, incredibly, the FCC is sitting on the rulemaking that will help correct this problem," Sen Kerry said.
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