Sick of slow Internet connections? The federal government hears you.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Monday unveiled some details of its "broadband plan," which aims to speed up Web connections and make high-speed Internet available to more Americans.
The commission plans to use educational programs and an expansion of broadband Internet infrastructure to give 90 percent of Americans high-speed Internet access at home by 2020.
Currently, only 65 percent of Americans have high-speed Internet access at home, which the FCC says is a detriment to economic growth. The proposal will make the U.S. "the world's largest market of high-speed broadband users" and will create jobs, the FCC says in a news release.
The plan would also lower health care costs and improve home energy efficiency by making information available digitally, the FCC says.
Other details of the plan remain unclear. The FCC will release its entire proposal at a meeting Tuesday.
The FCC also wants to speed up overall connections, which are often criticized as slow by global standards.
Its goal is to give 100 million households access to Internet connections that transfer 100 megabits of data per second.
