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{{U}}A newly released proposal calls for almost everyone in the United States to have high-speed Internet service at home within ten years.{{/U}} On Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission sent its National Broadband Plan to Congress.
{{U}}The F. C.C. wants one hundred million homes to have inexpensive Internet service at ten times current speed.{{/U}} Another goal for 2020 is to have the fastest and most extensive wireless network of any nation.
The United States invented the Internet. Yet a recent study placed it sixteenth in broadband access. F.C.C. Chairman Julius Genachowski says the service available is slow and costly compared with other developed countries.
{{U}}Currently, about two-thirds of Americans have broadband at home. But almost one hundred million do not.{{/U}} The government says fourteen million of them cannot get broadband even if they want it.