Also, it's hard to argue that the government should take no action
to try to expand wireless and broadband availability. Much like high-speed
rail, the U.S.'s competitors are spending to expand this infrastructure, and if
the U.S. doesn't keep up, it risks becoming a second-class power. And the
private sector, due its focus on profits, has expressed little interest in
preventing this from happening. So at the end of the day the government
has to step in, but the questions are "in what way?" and "how
much?"