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Editor’s note: On March 23, the White House released the
following report on the Obama administration’s broadband
efforts.
“Twenty-first century businesses need 21st century infra-
structure — modern ports, and stronger bridges, faster trains
and the fastest Internet...I intend to protect a free and open
Internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every com-
munity, and help folks build the fastest networks so that the
next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have
the platform to keep reshaping our world.”
– President Obama, State of the Union, 2015
In January, the President traveled to Cedar Falls, Iowa to
announce his plan to promote “Broadband that Works,” a
public-private effort to help more Americans, in more com-
munities around the country, get access to fast and affordable
broadband. Making good on the vision he outlined in his
State of the Union Address means promoting investment and
rewarding competition. On March 23, the administration an-
nounced progress since January and new steps in that effort,
including:
Reaching the National Goal of Providing 98
Percent of Americans with Access to High-
Speed, Mobile Broadband.
In 2011, the President challenged the public and private
sector to work together to expand wireless access and set
the ambitious goal of providing 4th Generation (4G) mobile
broadband to at least 98 percent of Americans. Today, based
on newly released data from the U.S. Commerce Depart-
ment’s National Telecommunications and Information Ad-
ministration (NTIA), we are announcing that through signifi-
cant private investment we have reached that goal—nearly
two years ahead of schedule. The Obama administration put
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