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PCCA Journal|2

nd

Quarter 2015

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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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