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>> For U.S. businesses to lead across the globe and for innovation to flourish at home, we need to invest in the infrastructure of the future: broadband.
>> We need robust and open broadband, flourishing with applications and services that we can only begin to imagine. We have extraordinary capacity in the U.S. to build the best computers, chips, and applications in the world.
>> But we are at risk of that asset being wasted if we don't have great broadband infrastructure, wired and wireless.
>> Mobile broadband can be about many things: mobile broadband can be about job creation and economic growth. Studies show that increases in mobile broadband adoption translate into increases in economic growth and job creation.
>> To benefit all Americans and promote our global competitiveness, the U.S. must have the fastest, most robust, and most extensive mobile broadband networks, and the most innovative mobile broadband marketplace in the world.
>> Our plan is ambitious but straightforward: Accelerate the broad deployment of mobile broadband by moving to recover and reallocate spectrum; update 20th century spectrum policies to reflect 21st century technologies and opportunities;
>> remove barriers to broadband build out, lower the cost of deployment, and promote competition. The National Broadband Plan will chart a clear path forward.
>> And if we do not seize the moment, I fear for the opportunity we will have lost. If we get it right, broadband will be an enduring engine for creating jobs and growing our economy,
>> for spreading knowledge and enhancing civic engagement, for advancing a healthier, sustainable way of life. This our moment. Let's seize it.