National Broadband Initiative!

Regardless of your politics, you have to admit that bringing Broadband service to everyone is very exciting! As per the National Broadband Plan {Connecting America} http://www.broadband.gov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYf2AVCdzZw


Here are the goals:

Goal 1: At least 100 million U.S. homes should have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second.

Goal 2: The United States should lead the world in mobile innovation, with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.

Goal 3: Every American should have affordable access to robust broadband service, and the means and skills to subscribe if they so choose.

Goal 4: Every community should have affordable access to at least 1 Gbps broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals and government buildings.

Goal 5: To ensure the safety of Americans, every first responder should have access to a nationwide public safety wireless network.

Goal 6: To ensure that America leads in the clean energy economy, every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.

Here in the Nature coast area of Florida Broadband Infrastructure is poor at best. What is available is not very stable and to get fiber connections its very expensive due to the lack of competition in the area.

Also, being that over 65% of our area is unearned income and rural, pricing and availability for businesses and health care providers is number one on our list.

As per the www.broadband.gov site "Broadband and health IT will transform health care, simultaneously enabling better outcomes and lowering costs. Electronic Health Records and Remote Monitoring technology could alone create over $700 B in net savings over 15-25 years. Yet in nearly every metric used to measure the adoption of health information technology (health IT), the United States ranks in the bottom half among comparable countries. The Federal government can do more to stimulate this rapidly-growing industry:

Ensure all health care providers have access to affordable broadband, by revamping the Rural Health Care Program
For rural clinics and small physician offices, mass market broadband infrastructure is often priced beyond their means or altogether insufficient to support their health IT needs. The National Broadband Plan recommends substantial changes to the FCC’s Rural Health Care Program, better utilizing authorized funding of $400 M per year to help meet these challenges. Among other changes, the recommendations will help health care providers purchase broadband services and expand the program to more institutions."

CNSG being the ONLY HIPAA Certified and Microsoft Certified Partner MSP (Managed Services Provider) in the Nature coast area, is very excited about this initiative. We look forward to assisting local providers with getting reimbursement for health IT and other economic incentives. With broadband comes the concern of privacy and security for all your business information. As Security Professionals we can work with your business to insure your data is protected and recoverable.

Call CNSG today to speak with our CERTIFIED and PROFESSIONAL consultants!