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EDUCAUSE Proposes New Approach to Broadband Development

Created by Colleen Luckett (EDUCAUSE) on January 29, 2008

EDUCAUSE today proposed bringing the federal government, state governments, and the private sector together as part of a new approach to making high-speed Internet services available across the country. The group, whose membership includes information technology officials from more than 2,200 colleges, universities, and other educational organizations, said that a new "universal broadband fund" would be necessary so that "Big Broadband" — services of 100 mbps — could be made widely available. For more information, read the press release.