Not really Windows or Microsoft news, but still an interesting read (I am stretching the boundries of Microsoft/Windows news I know).

A bill that seeks a universal broadband-access strategy within six months is drawing criticism from some who say that calling such high-speed service "the wave of the future" and giving it special treatment is premature. The federal government would be charged with devising a national strategy for universal high-speed Internet access, under a bill introduced this week by a prominent senator. Boosting broadband would lead to "high-intensity growth" of the economy, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) told Congress at the bill's introduction.

Lieberman first described his plan to tech workers at the Silicon Valley software company Wind River Systems last week. A Senate committee--probably the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee--will review it next. "The time is ripe for this legislation, because a case needs to be made in Washington of why broadband is important, and what its potential is," says Adam Kovacevich, a Lieberman spokesperson.