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June 23, 2005
Dear Senators McCain and Lautenberg:
Media Alliance, the nation's longest running advocacy organization for media in the public interest, strongly supports the Community Broadband Act of 2005 and applauds your leadership on this critical consumer issue.
The Community Broadband Act would protect local community’s choices to provide high-speed, or broadband Internet access for its citizens. Affordable high-speed access to the Internet is not a luxury; it has become a public necessity. Though the economic benefits of high-speed Internet access are undisputed, most Americans either don’t have access to it, or can’t afford it. It is critical that the Community Broadband Act of 2005 be enacted to reinforce the right of all communities to offer their residents affordable high-speed Internet access. Communities that lack affordable high-speed Internet access will lose jobs as businesses that require it locate elsewhere. Moreover, their residents will continue to face increasingly serious disadvantages in educational and healthcare services.
Today, only 30 percent of American households subscribe to broadband Internet services. The problem is particularly acute in rural and urban areas that either lack access entirely, or have only a single high-cost service to choose from-which is no choice at all. Dominant telephone and cable companies have all too frequently skipped over Main Street to deliver higher returns to Wall Street. Yet without broadband Internet access, Americans in rural and underserved urban areas will be stranded on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Recent studies show that America ranks 16th worldwide in the percentage of citizens with broadband connections, placing our country at a critical competitive disadvantage. Municipal wireless and broadband networks are not only vital in helping realize universal broadband access that will speed adoption rates, they offer a critical competitive alternative in areas served by a single broadband provider charging rates too costly for average consumers. Indeed, in many areas, municipal broadband offers the only hope for competition that will lower prices and improve service-critical steps to achieving the Administration’s goal of universal broadband access by 2007.
We can no longer allow the on-ramp to the Information Superhighway to be blocked for so many Americans. Congress needs to take this common sense step to protect the rights of communities to offer their residents the benefits of high-speed Internet access. If they don’t, monopoly providers will continue to leave millions of Americans behind and the digital divide will only grow wider. Your legislation will ensure that the door to competitive, affordable broadband Internet access remains open to all communities.
We look forward to working with you toward enactment of this important legislation.
Respectfully,
Jeff Perlstein
Executive Director, Media Alliance
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