Broadband Internet Access

Broadband technologies, which encompass all evolving high-speed digital technologies that provide consumers integrated access to voice, high-speed data, video-on-demand, and interactive delivery services, are a fundamental component of the communications revolution. Fully-evolved broadband will:

• Virtually eliminate geographic distance as an obstacle to acquiring information, and
• Dramatically reduce the time it takes to access information.

All will benefit as broadband’s technologies are developed and deployed. Nonetheless:

• The infrastructure is not yet ubiquitous,
• Relative costs of deployment remain high compared to narrowband,
• Access is limited in underserved areas, and
• Adoption rates remain low relative to availability.