Obama Outlines Plan

Obama Outlines Broadband Plan

Posted by Sam Churchill on December 8th, 2008

In his You Tube address on Saturday, President Elect Barack Obama stated that extending broadband access to all Americans is one of the pillars of his economic recovery plan.

As we renew our schools and highways, we’ll also renew our information superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President – because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.

In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the internet, we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system – and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives.

Wireless technologies can extend broadband access at one tenth the cost of wired technologies, says Proxim’s Robb Henshaw, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications. He thinks WiMAX can extend the reach of wireless networks, eliminating the high cost of fiber or copper, with 802.11n extending easily accessible Wi-Fi.

source : dailywireless.org