FCC Reveals New Broadband Plan

The US Federal Communications Commission has officially released country’s first national broadband plan which will provide Americans with the fastest and most extensive wireless network in the world.

The plan, 360 pages long, aims at assuring that at least 100 million homes have affordable access to broadband networks by 2020.

The access to broadband network will allow users to download data from Internet at speeds of at least 100Mbps, about 25 times faster than the current average.

Currently, average speed is at 4 Mbps, even Internet services over cable or fiber offers speeds of between 5-6Mbps.

The FCC blueprint says, "Like electricity a century ago, broadband is a foundation for economic growth, job creation, global competitiveness and a better way of life."

The national broadband plan would phase out the telephone subsidies in the US$4.6 billion-a-year program over 10 years and put the money into a new broadband deployment program.