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ECONOMICS REPORT - Plan Aims to Expand Broadband Across US

A newly released proposal calls for almost everyone in the United States to have high-speed Internet service at home within ten years. On Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission sent its National Broadband Plan to Congress.

The F.C.C. wants one hundred million homes to have inexpensive Internet service at ten times current speeds. Another goal for twenty twenty 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.

Currently, about two-thirds of Americans have broadband at home. But almost one hundred million do not. The government says fourteen million of them cannot get broadband even if they wanted it.

The United States built a national highway system to expand transportation. Now President Obama says a similar effort is needed to expand broadband networks.

His administration says expanding access is an economic development issue. Fast connections, it says, are important to business and job creation, and to other areas like education and health care. The government proposes to spend up to sixteen billion dollars on a wireless network for public safety agencies.

Most Americans get broadband service through their cable television provider or telephone company. There are rules for companies that supply utilities like electricity and water to let competitors use their wires or pipes. But some experts point out the lack of such "open access" rules for telephone and cable companies. This is unlike some other countries with better broadband access.

Expanding service to some areas of the country will require wireless transmission. But there is a limited amount of radio frequency spectrum available.

To help pay for the plan, the F.C.C. wants to sell five hundred megahertz of spectrum. But it says the plan will require ten times more unused spectrum than it can now offer. TV stations are worried that they will be forced to give up some of their frequencies.

Some members of Congress have questioned the costs of the F.C.C. plan and how it may affect competition. At the same time, a court case has raised questions about the agency's legal powers to regulate broadband service.

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                                        经济报道——全美宽带扩充计划
       一个{zx1}的提案要求全美的人在未来十年内都能享用到高速度的网络服务。在星期二，

xx通讯委员会向国会提交了他关于全国宽带计划的提案。
       美国xx通信委员会希望有100百万的家庭能够拥有相对便宜并比现在快十倍的网速。在

2020年的另一个目标是在全美铺设更广泛更快捷的无线网络。
       美国发明了因特网。纵然在一个最近的调查把它放置在宽带通信的第十六位。美国xx

通信委员会的主席朱利叶斯Genachowski 说相对于别的发展中的国家可用的服务太慢了

并且很昂贵。
       一般的，大约百分之23的美国人在家有宽带。但是差不多有1亿的人没有。政府说其中的

一千四百万不能使用宽带纵然他们希望能够使用它。
       美国建立了一个国家高速系统来发展交通。现在奥巴马总统说要在宽带网上发展一个像

类似的努力。
        他的行政机构说发展通路是发展经济的要素。快速的链接，它说，对做生意和提过就业

机会是很重要的，并且在另外的一些领域中也发挥作用，如同在教育和健康。政府对花

费16十亿美元来提升公共安全部门的网速的提案。
       大多数的美国人得到网络服务通过他们的有线电视服务或者电话公司。这些提供像水电

这样的公共设施的公司让竞争对手使用他们的电线和水管。但是有些专家指出这其中的

电话和电缆公司缺少“开放存取”的规则。这点和那些有更好宽带服务的国家相比是不

同的。
       向一些地方的乡村扩展服务需要无线运输。但是由于可用的无线电频率光谱的缺少，限

制了其发展。
       为了支付这个计划的花费，美国xx通信委员会希望能卖出500兆的光谱。但是这个计划

将会需要比现在能提供的多10倍的没使用的光谱。电视台担心他们将不得不被逼放弃一

些他们的频率。
      现在一些个国会议员已经对美国xx通信委员会的这一个计划提出了异议，并怀疑它对

竞争的影响将会有多大。与此同时，一个诉讼案件已经被提出问题关于这代理商拥有法

定的权势来调剂宽带服务。