The FTTH Council has issued a new recommnedation for a national broadband policy:

The Fiber-to-the-Home Council proposes a goal of providing affordable access to next-generation broadband networks to a majority of Americans by 2010 with universal access by 2015. To ensure that consumers can both receive and transmit video and other high-speed services, applications, and content, these networks should have transmission speeds in excess of 100 Mbps and symmetrical access capabilities.

 More details in the document.