FCC chief touts broadband in state
Providing access to all areas is vital to U.S. growth, he says
Posted: November 25, 2009 at 4:03 a.m.
Julius Genachowski (left), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., discuss the need to extend broadband to rural areas during an event Tuesday at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.
Expanding broadband access to underserved areas of the country is to today’s generation what construction of railroads, highways and the electricity grid were in the past century, says Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
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