Source: Leslie Cauley, USA Today

High-speed Internet access is so important to the welfare of U.S. consumers that America can’t afford not to offer it — free of charge — to anybody who wants it, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says.

“There’s a social obligation in making sure everybody can participate in the next generation of broadband services because, increasingly, that’s what people want,” he says.

Martin hopes to use a chunk of wireless airwaves due to hit the auction block next year to help turn his vision into reality. Some cellphone operators are objecting.

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