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FCC broadband plan under fire from all sides

Read ArticleThe Washington Post: MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy expects to issue a request for proposals for 10 new shallow-water warships within weeks, a top Navy official said on Monday.

Network World: The National Broadband Plan proposed by the FCC expected to be submitted to Congress on March 17 is already under fire. Depending on who you ask, the $25 billion plan to expand and modernize the broadband infrastructure in the United States is either overly ambitious, or completely inadequate.

My PCWorld colleague David Coursey declared "It is probably fair to say the plan as a whole will be dead-on-arrival when it lands on lawmakers' desks. To have any chance of passage, critics say it must be broken into a number of smaller pieces to be acted upon individually."  Read Article

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