FCC Chief Wants to Help Untangle Internet Congestion

WASHINGTON — 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.