High-speed Internet around the corner - FierceCIO

"Broadband investments are important because they have a tremendous multiplier effect on our economy," he said. President Obama has argued that broadband spending will create thousands of new jobs.

House Democrats want $6 billion to build a new infrastructure with high-speed connections, not much different than the vast undertaking in the 1950s to build the interstate highway system that connected one end of the country to the other and provided sweeping opportunities to develop many parts of the United States. We report on this story this week, just the beginning of what will become a massive undertaking sweeping the country.

High-speed Internet around the corner - FierceCIO