FCC chair focuses on ‘broadband, broadband’ future

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski lives by his Apple iPad. He reads speeches off it. He marvels at using an app to identify constellations in the night sky. He wants everybody to be as connected as he is. The Democrat who touts “our mobile future” started his tenure by writing a plan to spread high-speed Internet to rural America, and calling for more airwaves and higher speeds for mobile networks. Last week he joined an effort to ensure access for the roughly 100 million Americans who haven’t adopted broadband at home. “Since I arrived at the FCC, it’s...

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