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April 27th 04, 04:07 PM

From: JBellows K0QB

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Subject: [TCDXA-list] BPL Comments of President Bush im
Minneapolis on April 26th

The following is from the President's speech in Minneapolis on
April 26, 2004. Note the last line of paragraph four.
Particularly note the comment "(s)o technical standards need to
be changed to encourage that."

"Now, the use of broadband has tripled since 2000 from 7 million
subscriber lines to 24 million. That's good. But that's way short
of the goal for 2007. And so -- by the way, we rank 10th amongst
the industrialized world in broadband technology and its
availability. That's not good enough for America. Tenth is 10
spots too low as far as I'm concerned. (Applause.)

Broadband technology must be affordable. In order to make sure it
gets spread to all corners of the country, it must be affordable.
We must not tax broadband access. If you want broadband access
throughout the society, Congress must ban taxes on access.
(Applause.)

Secondly, a proper role for the government is to clear regulatory
hurdles so those who are going to make investments do so.
Broadband is going to spread because it's going to make sense for
private sector companies to spread it so long as the regulatory
burden is reduced -- in other words, so long as policy at the
government level encourages people to invest, not discourages
investment.

And so here are some smart things to do: One, increase access to
federal land for fiberoptic cables and transmission towers. That
makes sense. As you're trying to get broadband spread throughout
the company, make sure it's easy to build across federal lands.
One sure way to hold things up is that the federal lands say, you
can't build on us. So how is some guy in remote Wyoming going to
get any broadband technology? Regulatory policy has got to be
wise and smart as we encourage the spread of this important
technology. There needs to be technical standards to make
possible new broadband technologies, such as the use of
high-speed communication directly over power lines. Power lines
were for electricity; power lines can be used for broadband
technology. So the technical standards need to be changed to
encourage that.

And we need to open up more federally controlled wireless
spectrum to auction in free public use, to make wireless
broadband more accessible, reliable, and affordable. Listen, one
of the technologies that's coming is wireless. And if you're
living out in -- I should -- I was going to say Crawford, Texas,
but it's not -- maybe not nearly as remote. (Laughter.) How about
Terlingua, Texas? There's not a lot of wires out there. But
wireless technology is going to change all that so long as
government policy makes sense.

And we're going to continue to support the Federal Communications
Commission. Michael Powell -- Chairman Michael Powell, under his
leadership, his decision to eliminate burdensome regulations on
new broadband networks availability to homes. In other words,
clearing out the underbrush of regulation, and we'll get the
spread of broadband technology, and America will be better for
it. (Applause.) "

I thought you would be interested. Perhaps you might think about
expressing your views on the BPL issue to President Bush. You may
want to check the ARRL Website on this. I expect Jim Haynie will
be sending a letter to President Bush on behalf of ARRL. The mail
and email address for the President should be available on the
Web page.

73,

Jay Bellows, KÃ˜QB

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