Reed Hundt

About the author: Reed Hundt is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a federal agency that regulates American radio, television, satellite, and cable communications.

The rapid growth of Internet users and services has created the need to maximize bandwidth (the capacity and speed of networks) and access to cyberspace. To achieve this objective, competition must be encouraged among Internet service providers in order to reduce access costs and attract more users. Policies and standards should be created to facilitate access to the Internet. And technological innovations such as an all-digital telephone network would expand bandwidth and ease Internet congestion.

Editor's note: The following speech was delivered at the INET '96 conference in Montreal, Canada, on June 28, 1996.

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