PALO ALTO, Calif.—A high-tech group yesterday urged government policy-makers to set a market-based, national spectrum policy as part of its call for a national broadband policy.
“The United States led the world in developing the information economy,” said Rick White, chief executive officer of the Technology Network. “If we want to keep our leadership role, we need a high-bandwidth network that will give U.S. citizens access to the enormous promise of 21st century technology.”
TechNet will use the new broadband report as a springboard to lobby the Bush administration and Congress for a broadband policy driven by investment and innovation incentives and deregulation. The group said the government should pursue a broadband goal of 100 megabits per second to 100 million homes and small businesses by the end of the decade.
In addition, high-tech leaders recommended that policy-makers should make an additional 200 megahertz of spectrum available for wireless broadband service and adopt a flexible spectrum policy generally.
