It has been long overdue.  The United States needs more than just empty commitments from carriers to implement broadband systems across every part of the country.

You don’t ask business people to commit to something as audacious as a national broadband policy without giving these folks some kind of incentive or at least how to make money.  The marketplace has been waiting for the telecom carrier community to tackle these issues of deploying broadband across the nation and in every community.  However, regulation and legislation has been so haphazard in the manner in which broadband deployment would be managed no telecom company in its right mind would want to move forward.

Policy facilitates clarity.  The clarity could ultimately lead to companies deploying broadband technologies so that they are affordable to everyone in the country.

Larry Irving is an old hand in the telecom space; principally as a policy maker.  Nevertheless it is good that someone familiar with the space is leading the charge.  The policies they help to create will hopefully generate jobs and generate investment opportunities as well.

A national broadband policy may or may not make the United States more competitive.  However, it is clear that doing nothing has done the nation no good.  Small businesses across the nation are working feverishly to use the Internet to sell their products and services.  It would seem logical that a national broadband policy is necessary to enable not just the large mega corporations to do better business but the small business as well can do better business.