FCC: Broadband Deployment Isn’t Happening Fast Enough – PCWorld Business Center: “Between 14 million and 24 million U.S. residents don’t have access to broadband service, and deployment isn’t happening fast enough, a report from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission concluded.

Broadband isn’t being rolled out to unserved areas in a timely manner, and immediate prospects for deployment to U.S. residents without service are ‘bleak,’ the FCC said in the broadband deployment report, released Tuesday. This is the first time, since the FCC began issuing the reports in 1999, that the agency has concluded that broadband isn’t being deployed fast enough.

The report, required by Congress, is an ‘honest look’ at the state of broadband in the U.S., Julius Genachowski, the FCC’s chairman, said in a statement.

‘The report points out the great broadband successes in the United States, including as many as 290 million Americans who have gained access to broadband over the past decade,’ Genachowski said. ‘But the statute requires more. It requires the agency to reach a conclusion about whether all — not some, not most — Americans are being served in a reasonable and timely fashion.‘”