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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,旺旺英语听力,5,This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.,A newly proposal calls for almost everyone in the,United States to have Internet service at home,within ten years.On Tuesday the Federal Communications,Commission its National Broadband Plan to,Congress.,The F.C.C.wants homes to have,inexpensive Internet service at ten times speeds.,Another for twenty,twenty,is to have the fastest,and most extensive network of any nation.,The United States the Internet.Yet a recent study,placed it sixteenth in broadband .F.C.C.Chairman,Julius,Genachowski,says is slow and,costly other developed countries.,released,high-speed,sent,one hundred million,current,goal,wireless,invented,access,the service available,compared with,about two-thirds of Americans have,at home.But almost one hundred,million do not.The government says fourteen,million of them cannot get broadband even if they,wanted it.,The United States built to,expand .Now President Obama says a,is needed to expand broadband networks.,His administration says access is an economic,development .Fast connections,it says,are,important to business and ,and to other,areas like education and .The government,proposes to spend sixteen billion dollars on a,wireless network for public safety agencies.,Currently,broadhand,a national highway system,transportation,a similar effort,expanding,issue,job creation,health care,up to,Most Americans get broadband service through,their cable provider or telephone,company.for companies that supply,utilities like and water to let competitors,use their wires or pipes.But some point,out the of such open access rules for,telephone and cable companies.This is,some other countries with better broadband,access.,service to some areas of the country,will wireless transmission.But there is a,limited of radio frequency spectrum,available.,television,There are rules,electricity,experts,unlike,Expanding,require,amount,lack,To help the plan,the F.C.C.wants to sell five,hundred megahertz of spectrum.But it says the plan will,require ten times more spectrum than it can now,offer.TV stations are worried that they will be forced to,some of their frequencies.,Some members of Congress the costs of,the F.C.C.plan and how it may competition.,a court case has raised questions about the,agencys powers to regulate broadband service.,And thats the VOA Special English Economics Report,written by Mario Ritter.Im Steve Ember.,pay for,give up,unused,have questioned,affect,At the,same time,legal,