What is going on?
Why this push for nation wide broadband in the USA, because that is what it is in my opinion. With local telephone rates zero narrow band internet is already available to every American. But broadband is where the market is. Broadband is where Google and Microsoft (and every other technology related company) is waiting for.

So, what is actually going on?
Perhaps we are witnessing the transformation of the power structure of Washingtonian lobbying. It might be that the pockets of Microsoft and Google are starting to get significantly deeper than their colleagues in ‘traditional’ media. There is more money to make in gaming itself than in selling the games?

Is that really what is going on?
Perhaps it is something else entirely. It might be that the FCC is already implementing policy for the new government. The new government intends to recreate America so it retains its ‘best country in the world’ status. And you can never accept to be only 15th in the world regarding broadband deployment and price.