The internet of everything is now officially the "everything of everything." President Barack Obama last week put a stake in the ground on high-speed broadband, with FCC chairman Tom Wheeler following up with some of the commission's own proposed action items. As B&C reported last week, Wheeler plans to vote this month on increasing the FCC's definition of high-speed broadband from 4 Mbps to 25 Mbps, and to vote next month on petitions asking the FCC to preempt state laws limiting municipal broadband. The president is clearly building his legacy in this second term, free from having to run for another. It is also clearly an affirmation that the Internet is an unprecedented force in American life and that the government is likely in that space to stay.
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