[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7121]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CABLE'S HIGH SPEED EDUCATION CONNECTION

  (Mr. MANTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute the cable television 
industry for its latest educational initiative to provide elementary 
and secondary schools across the country with access to the Internet 
using high speed cable modems. Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to 
education, the industry is providing this extraordinary service free of 
charge.
  Cable modems can provide data transmission up to 1,000 times faster 
than transmission over ordinary twisted copper phone lines. Information 
that takes more than one hour to download using a typical modem can be 
done in just seconds using a cable modem.
  This high-speed digital access to the information superhighway will 
provide enormous benefits to our Nation's schoolchildren. As cable 
rolls out this technology in communities across the country, your local 
school library will be electronically transformed into the Library of 
Congress, the National Archives, and a source of unlimited 
information--and at no cost to the school or the taxpayer.
  In conclusion, I want to commend the cable industry for its efforts 
to make certain that America's educational system has the benefit of 
the most advanced telecommunications technology.

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