(Computerworld) -- A progressive Washington think tank today blasted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Bush administration for failing to invest in and develop a robust broadband network in the U.S. that can support consumers as well as first responders and anti-terrorist teams.
"The policy of relying on market forces that the Bush administration claimed for seven years would propel broad access is irresponsible and insufficient," Mark Lloyd, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), said in a statement on the CAP's Web site.
"The result of administration neglect, industry intransigence and the incompetence of the Federal Communications Commission ... has left the American people and most policymakers with no clear idea where broad services are deployed in the U.S.," said Lloyd, who is also an affiliated professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.
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