[PPRAANet] President Bush Encourages BPL

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:15:05 -0700 (PDT)

Here's an opportunity to speak out on Broadband Over Power Line.

  73,
  Bob K0NR

--- ARRL Web site <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: 27 Apr 2004 15:52:59 -0000
> From: "ARRL Web site" <[email protected]>
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> Subject: President Bush Encourages BPL
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> If you would like to send a comment to President Bush about this
> technology speech, the link shown will direct you to the web site where
> you can file one. The category is Science and Technology. Please keep it
> short and sweet.
> 
> 73, Walt W0CP
> ARRL Director (RM)
> 
> https://sawho14.eop.gov/PERSdata/intro.htm
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> 
>  
> President Bush delivered a speech yesterday which included the
> following:
> 
> Now, the use of broadband has tripled since 2000 from 7 million
> subscriber lines to 24 million. That's good. But that's way short of the
> goal for 2007. And so -- by the way, we rank 10th amongst the
> industrialized world in broadband technology and its availability.
> That's not good enough for America. Tenth is 10 spots too low as far as
> I'm concerned. (Applause.) 
> 
> Broadband technology must be affordable. In order to make sure it gets
> spread to all corners of the country, it must be affordable. We must not
> tax broadband access. If you want broadband access throughout the
> society, Congress must ban taxes on access. (Applause.) 
> 
> Secondly, a proper role for the government is to clear regulatory
> hurdles so those who are going to make investments do so. Broadband is
> going to spread because it's going to make sense for private sector
> companies to spread it so long as the regulatory burden is reduced -- in
> other words, so long as policy at the government level encourages people
> to invest, not discourages investment. 
> 
> And so here are some smart things to do: One, increase access to federal
> land for fiberoptic cables and transmission towers. That makes sense. As
> you're trying to get broadband spread throughout the company, make sure
> it's easy to build across federal lands. One sure way to hold things up
> is that the federal lands say, you can't build on us. So how is some guy
> in remote Wyoming going to get any broadband technology? Regulatory
> policy has got to be wise and smart as we encourage the spread of this
> important technology. There needs to be technical standards to make
> possible new broadband technologies, such as the use of high-speed
> communication directly over power lines. Power lines were for
> electricity; power lines can be used for broadband technology. So the
> technical standards need to be changed to encourage that. 
> 
> And we need to open up more federally controlled wireless spectrum to
> auction in free public use, to make wireless broadband more accessible,
> reliable, and affordable. Listen, one of the technologies that's coming
> is wireless. And if you're living out in -- I should -- I was going to
> say Crawford, Texas, but it's not -- maybe not nearly as remote.
> (Laughter.) How about Terlingua, Texas? There's not a lot of wires out
> there. But wireless technology is going to change all that so long as
> government policy makes sense. 
> 
> And we're going to continue to support the Federal Communications
> Commission. Michael Powell -- Chairman Michael Powell, under his
> leadership, his decision to eliminate burdensome regulations on new
> broadband networks availability to homes. In other words, clearing out
> the underbrush of regulation, and we'll get the spread of broadband
> technology, and America will be better for it. (Applause.)
> 
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