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SALT LAKE CITY -- The Federal Communications Commission has announced its plan to expand access to broadband Internet in the United States. XMission founder and president Pete Ashdown says it's a step in the right direction.
Ashdown says the U.S. has been falling behind other countries for years. "I talk to businesses every day who are frustrated with the bandwidth options they can get," he said. "Businesses are demanding faster Internet just to do what they do every day."
The FCC is proposing putting $15 billion toward infrastructure. Ashdown says that's not nearly enough.
"Not even close," he said. "$15 billion would probably wire California."
Ashdown says he's glad to see the feds are paying attention to the problem. He says improvements to broadband actually brought South Korea out of its recession.
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