{"id":14796,"date":"2015-01-14T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2015-01-19T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:35:56","slug":"obama-wants-to-help-make-your-internet-faster-and-cheaper-this-is-his-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14796","title":{"rendered":"Obama wants to help make your Internet faster and cheaper. This is his plan."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Frustrated over the number of\u00a0Internet providers that are available to you? If so, you&#8217;re like many who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/09\/04\/fcc-chairman-a-duopoly-dominates-basic-internet-service-in-america\/\">limited to just a handful of broadband companies<\/a>. But now President Obama wants to change that, arguing that choice and competition are lacking in the U.S. broadband market. On Wednesday, Obama will unveil\u00a0a series of measures aimed at making high-speed Web connections cheaper and more widely available to millions of Americans. The\u00a0announcement will focus chiefly on efforts by cities to build their own alternatives to major Internet providers such as Comcast, Verizon or AT&amp;T \u2014\u00a0a public option for Internet access, you could say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/01\/13\/obama-to-help-cities-build-their-own-public-internet-service-to-rival-large-isps\/\">Obama wants to help make your Internet faster and cheaper. This is his plan. &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated over the number of\u00a0Internet providers that are available to you? If so, you&#8217;re like many who are limited to just a handful of broadband companies. But now President Obama wants to change that, arguing that choice and competition are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[470,1344,621,1360],"class_list":["post-14796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-fcc","tag-municipal-broadband","tag-net-neutrality","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14797,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/14797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}