Of course they won't take it up. Why would they invest in the infrastructure of our nation? They sure don't have any interest in making health care accessible to all and when a rogue (look, I used it CORRECTLY) Republican Senator decides to stop the flow of business in Medicaid, Fed road work projects and unemployment benefits, why would these old, rich men and women have the slightest idea what kind of benefits this would yield? Fact is, we have only a handful of first-party ISP's in this country who can support the backbone bandwidth required to maintain internet traffic and they are all oversold to a negligent extent. What kind of interrupt would we experience if, say, Verizon were to go belly-up? Or experience some sort of crippling malware attack or hardware failure? We would be cut off from the rest of the world, much of the country, and ecommerce as well as many government functions would be crippled. Now, what do you think THAT would do to the economy?

While I do have little issue with a national broadband plan... a wireless plan is both decedent and not worth it... it's nice to WANT wifi everywhere, but to be honest there are a lot of reasons to... well NOT want wifi.

First off - most routers and wireless devices run off the 2.4ghz frequency... and unfortunately so do most of the wireless phones out there - not to mention there are some routers that are dual band and work better for long range with 5.8ghz frequency... so now we'll have many people buying new cordless phones to not interfere with the "National Wireless" Plan... will it be an FCC offense to use the 2.4ghz band then? what about 5.8ghz? technically you're disrupting a federal wireless transmission, which is an offense...

The next, and biggest issue, is that this will destroy cell phone companies in every which way.

You're worried about Verizon going belly up? If you kill Verizon Wireless they will - because FIOS is loosing money on each person they install (and don't keep past 30 days due to the ridiculous network topology they have...)

Sprint will die, Nextel will go down with them...

Why will they all go down in flames? Because who in the right mind wouldn't wander the US with a skype phone vs a Cell when the skype service is cheaper and you can connect your iPhone/Blackberry/other wifi smart phone via wifi to make Skpe calls.

That's the biggest issue is you'll end up killing the telecoms in general... not to mention, outdoor wifi is great, but you will very rarely be able to have it inside - so you'll still need a wireless router inside the home connected to your modem. (Unless you live in a house with very few windows that isn't made out of stone/brick/mortar at all then lucky you!)

This "Bill" (which has so very low goals but the only major thing it will do is get broadband out to the less populated area's...) or movement will be easier to swallow without the wifi access - lets get everyone internet access first and THEN we can work on wifi...

Much easier to push a 9 billion dollar infrastructure plan than to push a 25 Billion Dollar one... at least we knock a whole digit off.