Posted on 02/10/2011 1:20:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MARQUETTE, Michigan (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Thursday traveled to a remote corner of frigid Michigan to roll out an ambitious plan to offer high-speed wireless Internet coverage to 98 percent of Americans.
"We can't expect tomorrow's economy to take root using yesterday's infrastructure," said Obama, who unveiled the broadband Internet push as part of his plan to "Win the Future" in his State of the Union address last month.
"We've got to think about what's the next thing and make sure that we're at the forefront, just like we were in the last century," Obama said, comparing the web infrastructure growth to the economic jolt delivered by the railroads.
Obama chose to deliver his remarks at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, which partnered with communications firms to establish an off-campus wireless network, to help students in rural locations.
"Within five years, we want to make it possible for businesses to put high-speed wireless services in reach of virtually every American."
Obama's 18-billion-dollar plan, to be detailed in his next budget to be unveiled on Monday, is intended to create jobs and help rural businesses develop new products and markets.
It includes five billion dollars to help the development of a 4G wireless network by providers in rural areas.
Some 10 billion dollars would be used to help develop a national wireless network for first responders and emergency services, and there would be a three-billion-dollar investment in research in emerging wireless technologies.
The measure will be financed by the government's sale of freed up sectors of the wireless spectrum which the government says will raise up to 27.8 billion dollars.
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US President Barack Obama participates in a distance learning demonstration with two classrooms via the Internet at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan. Obama rolled out an ambitious plan to offer high-speed wireless Internet coverage to 98 percent of Americans. (AFP/Tim Sloan)
More spending
My plan to cut the deficit is to paint all the interstate highways with gold. Real gold. It’s an investment.
Let me guess... your free access will be “means tested” or “racially tested (a la Pigford)”. Everyone will pay an access fee (like Obamacare), but for some that fee will be zero.
Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama wait outside Doncker's,
a small diner in Marquette, Michigan, February 10, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young
Obama is an idiot.
Sounds like a neat idea Øbongo. You find the private underwriting for it and then we’ll talk.
Aw heck ya, free gummint interweb! That’ll do it!
Need free gummint p0rn too! And Skittles!
Sure get all the unemployed people High Speed Internet....That will make them want to go to work! /sarcasm
Now instead of sitting at home all day watching soaps they can twitter and look up internet porn!
Take your internet and shove it where the sun don’t shine, Obama.
Obama rolls out 18 billion dollar Internet plan (high-speed wireless Internet coverage for masses)
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With a master kill switch that he alone has access to.
That goes for the computer too.
Welcome to Bizarro World.
He is one weird duck.
The spending spree continues.
It’s like bread and circuses without the bread.
New tapestries for the QE2’s last voyage. (Like the double reference?)
Yes, 0bama is an idiot but the even bigger idiots stand out in the snow with their “Hope & Change” signs. Because if those idiots didn’t exist, 0bama would be just another street corner race hustler in some squalid inner-city neighborhood.
Could someone tell the dumbest kid in the room that there are not to many outhouses and barefoot people in west Virginia anymore. They even have cell phones and computers there. Idiot!!!
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