President Obama calls for 4G wireless access to majority of Americans by 2016

Broadcast Engineering ^ | 2/3/11 | Mike Grotocelli

[pissant]

In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama said he wanted 98 percent of Americans to have access to a high-speed Internet connection within five years.

“Within the next five years, we will make it possible for business to deploy the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage to 98 percent of all Americans,” Obama said in his nationally televised address.

The president also used the State of the Union to tell parents it was their job to turn off the TV set and make sure their kids get their homework done and for the United States to do a better job of deploying broadband, saying that “South Korean homes now have greater Internet access than we do.”

[pissant]

Hold on to your wallet, Nanny Obama has another sputnik moment.

[Lysandru]

Yeah, I have the same goal too. But unlike Obambi, I trust that the “greedy” phone companies will make it happen if only he doesn’t get in their way.

[newheart]

Vote for me and TOTUS will put an iPhone in every pocket.

[BenLurkin]

Hussein can pay for it himself.

[sloop]

great to know with all that is going on in the world, the idiot is focused on crap like this

[AbeKrieger]

This will of course be free or subsidized for the “Obama Core Constituency” along with the welfare cheese wheel that will consist of free computers and portable devices. The rest of us will pay a small (meaning large) fee (meaning hidden tax) on our monthly bills to ensure “equal” access to all.

[tacticalogic]

“South Korean homes now have greater Internet access than we do.”

They also have better border security that we do.

[Calusa]

“So let it be written. So let it be done.” Quoth Pharaoh.

[Emile]

“Turn off the TV set. The Pres__ent wants you to surf our high speed internet instead.”

[blackdog]

Shut up you fool. He thought it meant wireless 4Gaza.

[grobdriver]

He means “All of those American who choose to buy access to the service”, right?

[Red Badger]

4G?....God, Guns, Guts and Glory?.....................

[freekitty]

He means access only to the ones he designates.

[Brett66]

NO MORE MONEY!

[Parmy]

He wants to do that as well as have ‘kill switch’ on the internet? Isn’t this diametrically opposed?

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

Modern version of 'Let them eat cake'..

[R. Scott]

But I have no need for an iphone!

[GeronL]

big business+government= hold your wallets

[JSDude1]

It’s the new 21st Century “right” don’t you know? “..the right to free cell phone/internet access..”

[RC2]

He’s talking about the ghettos in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, etc, etc, etc. If you can afford it, you have to pay for it. If you can’t or won’t spend the money, he’ll give it to you at our expense.