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COMMISSIONER COPPS REITERATES CALL FOR A NATIONAL BROADBAND 
STRATEGY TO ADDRESS AMERICA'S DROP IN BROADBAND RANKINGS
In response to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development's 
announcement today that the United States has fallen in its country-by-country ranking of 
broadband penetration, Commissioner Michael J. Copps issued the following statement:
"Every year brings more bad news as the United States slides farther down the broadband 
rankings.  It's a national embarrassment and the only way to change it is to develop a broadband 
strategy like every other industrialized nation has already done.  These rankings aren’t a beauty 
contest – they’re about our competitiveness as a country and creating economic opportunity for 
all our people.  Bringing high-speed broadband to every corner of the country is the central 
infrastructure challenge we face.  Always in the past, our nation found ways to stay ahead of 
everyone else in building infrastructure like turnpikes, railroads and highways.  Now, in 
broadband, we’re not even an also-ran."
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