U.S. Broadband Coalition Working Group Urges Federal Involvement to Stimulate Adoption

A working group of the U.S. Broadband Coalition on Friday released a report in which the group called for the federal government to "play an active role in stimulating adoption and use of advanced broadband connections." The group, one of six committees of the U.S. Broadband Coalition ­ which had gathered more than 160 organizations to push for a national broadband strategy ­ presented its finding at the Federal Communications Commission, after introductory remarks by Blair Levin, director of the FCC's national broadband plan. The coalition's leadership spoke very positively about the prospects of inter-industry cooperation and identifying points for possible improvement. But the group generally avoided specifics about what should be done to fix these problems. The FCC's Levin pointed out, "Our work is about gathering data...we're not talking about solution sets right now, we're putting that off until December."