National Broadband Strategy Needs Another JFK, a Google That Delivers and Competition

[Commentary] Where are broadband’s 31 words to move a nation? Where's the brief mission statement that paint a clear endpoint and produce a common understanding that in turn unite folks in Congress, private industry, urban and rural counties, academia, etc.?

Broadband needs a President John Kennedy to convey a grand but concrete, comprehendible vision that can be summed up succinctly. The Broadband Plan contains many of the necessary ingredients, but a leader has to distill those ingredients, and then champion a mission that appears to exceed our grasp. Mainstream America sees a lot of goals and recommendations in the Plan, but they don't see a moon landing. They see stops along the way, a few conflicting paths, several possible landing pads.