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FCC CHIEF WANTS TO UNTANGLE INTERNET CONGESTION

January 30, 1998 Web posted at: 6:59 p.m. EST (2359 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's top telecommunications regulator wants to help ease the world wide wait on the Internet.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard doesn't have a plan yet but said Friday that he intends to start looking into ways to give companies incentives to provide more high-speed connections into homes. That would help ease congestion on the Internet.

"One issue that I'm particularly interested in is finding ways that we can foster more investment in high-capacity bandwidth. I believe that our nation will have an ever-increasing appetite for bandwidth -- for high capacity data transmission capabilities," he told reporters during a briefing on his top goals for the year.

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