Bob McChesney and John Podesta has a nice article in the Washington Monthly on the need to have an universal broadband access as it is a public infrastructure: “Without real competition or innovation, broadband deployment in the United States has stagnated. […] Simply empowering local governments and community groups, in coordination with private entrepreneurs, to provide universal affordable, broadband may be the single best thing we can do to make America the pre-eminent economy—and democracy—of the 21st century.” – Let There Be Wi-Fi