FCC Chairman Urges Industry To Volunteer Low-Cost Broadband

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski Wednesday called on Internet service providers to come up with a low-cost basic broadband offering to help drive adoption by low-income households. He praised a new bill, introduced by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, that would create a pilot program for low-cost broadband access, but said it would be a "great" next step forward if the industry would come up with that low-cost service, calling it one of the ways that private industry "can step up to the plate on adoption."