FCC Chief Wants to Help Untangle Internet Congestion

The nation’s top telecommunications regulator wants to help ease the World Wide Wait on the Internet.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard doesn’t have a plan yet but said Friday that he intends to start looking into ways to give companies incentives to provide more high-speed connections into homes. That would help ease congestion on the Internet.

“One issue that I’m particularly interested in is finding ways that we can foster more investment in high-capacity bandwidth. I believe that our nation will have an ever-increasing appetite for bandwidth--for high capacity data transmission capabilities,” he told reporters during a briefing on his top goals for the year.

Kennard also said the FCC should consider streamlining regulations to give companies incentives to build these networks.