United States: New Obama Plan Seeks Affordable Broadband Service for All US Homes.

Section: General News - President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress have set aside more than $7 billion to build broadband Internet networks to bring high speed computer access to every U.S. home. Policy makers say construction of the network and its use will help create jobs in the global digital economy. The goal is to deliver affordable broadband service to people in rural and underserved communities.

"The first thing basically that I do when I get on the Internet is generally I go directly to my email," Mona Hunnicutt explains.

Hunnicutt, 58, spends more than two hours a day on the computer. She and 75-year-old Vivian Leeper are semi-retired and are …