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Last June a meeting was held on Capitol Hill calling for a Broadband Revolution. Here's the link  to the YouTube video.

Panelists discussed the efforts of North Carolina in establishing broadband access to all of the state’s citizens--a model of what is possible.

For more information, read coverage about the meeting in Study Calls for 1G Broadband in the US

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From the article: “Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation, compared broadband to electricity or telephony of the last century. Broadband is the "essential public infrastructure of the 21st century," he said.”

From what I understand, there is discussion of using the Universal services Fund to propel national deployment.