Politech: With election nearing, Bush talks up broadband

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040326-9.html

 I want to talk about one other thing we've got to do to make sure this 
is a good place for people to realize their dreams and start a business 
and get well educated, is we've got to make sure this country is on the 
leading end of broadband technology. You see, new ideas and new 
businesses and new ways to educate people in Farmington, New Mexico are 
going to occur when we're able to get information flowing across cables 
and telephone lines in a fast way. That's what broadband technology is. 
It means we'll open the highways of knowledge -- new highways of knowledge.
This country needs a national goal for broadband technology, for the 
spread of broadband technology. We ought to have a universal, affordable 
access for broadband technology by the year 2007, and then we ought to 
make sure as soon as possible thereafter, consumers have got plenty of 
choices when it comes to purchasing the broadband carrier. See, the more 
choices
there are, the more the price will go down. And the more the price goes 
down, the more users there will be. And the more users there will be, 
the more likely it is America will stay on the competitive edge of world 
trade.
The more users there are, the more likely it is people will be able to 
have interesting new ways to receive doctors' advices in the home. The 
more affordable broadband technology is, the more innovative we can be 
with education. It's important that we stay on the cutting edge of 
technological change, and one way to do so is to have a bold plan for 
broadband.
Let me say one thing about broadband -- we don't need to tax access to 
broadband. The Congress must not tax access to broadband technology if 
we want to spread it around. (Applause.)
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