Thanks to Tom Garrison for sending me an article from CNN, Google analyst: U.S. Internet needs to get faster. It’s really an interview with Derek Slater, one of Google’s policy analysts. He talks about the importance of broadband in everyone’s home, calling broadband the “dial tone of the 21st century.” He briefly mentions ideas Google has passed on to the FCC to promote both broadband deployment and adoption.

I liked what he said about what we should be doing…

There is no silver bullet there. Instead, it’s going to take encouraging creative solutions. Some of them will come from the public sector, that is, some of them will involve municipalities or governments. Some of them are going to come from the private sector. And some of them are going to be a mix.

The idea isn’t new or exciting, heck I don’t even think it’s easy – but I think it is the essential piece to promote ubiquitous coverage.