Monday, March 15, 2010:
Already at the forefront of the global IT revolution, American citizens will have more to smile about this coming week. The US government has ambitious plans to phenomenally increase Internet speeds, to 25 times the current average, as one of the objectives of its new Internet policy to be unveiled in the National Broadband Plan by the Federal Communications Commission tomorrow, says Reuters.
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The much anticipated plan will present its proposal to Congress and is aimed at the fast-changing communications industry to expose Americans to lightning fast Internet services. More and more US citizens now use the net to communicate, pay bills, chart travel itineraries and download movies and music. "This is a fairly unique event," said Paul Gallant, analyst, Concept Capital. "The FCC really has never been asked to design a broad regulatory shift like this. Broadband is important and difficult because it threatens every established communications sector."
Since the FCC announcement, both Cisco Systems and Google have tried to cash in on the new policy; Cisco, by saying it would launch a router that can handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products, and Google, who has said it has plans to build a super-fast Internet network.
Ashish Joshi, EFYTIMES News Network
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