FCC hearing on Obama’s 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of which 7.2 billion is for a national broadband initiative. You can download the plan online here. I am waking up with a warm cup of tea and watching it on the FCC event site.

I am generally not a fan of CNN technology articles but this one caught my attention. I am looking forward to the details which are to be released tomorrow. I see a lot of bold promises but I am wondering what the impact will be like on broadband adoption. Sound bytes such as “Each community in America also will get access to at least one “ultra-high-speed” connection at a library, school or military base. Those connections will reach speeds of 1 gigabit per second” really worry me. This is a lot of marketing hype since whatever we connect to still cannot transfer data at that speed, it is like building a new 6 lane highway across a town but the connecting highways are 2 lanes.

What we need is an effective adoption plan. We need to reach out to the under served communities of America and to communities that are suffering with language barriers. I hope that the details tomorrow unveil a plan we can execute and sustain, We do not need a small group of people with extremely fast access but we do need a lot of people with fast access.