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National Broadband Plan

3/16/10 FCC Sends National Broadband Plan to Congress.
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Press Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Federal Communications Commission delivered to Congress a National Broadband Plan setting an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future -- robust, affordable Internet.

"The National Broadband Plan is a 21st century roadmap to spur economic growth and investment, create jobs, educate our children, protect our citizens, and engage in our democracy," said Chairman Julius Genachowski. "It's an action plan, and action is necessary to meet the challenges of global competitiveness, and harness the power of broadband to help address so many vital national issues."

"In every era, America must confront the challenge of connecting the nation anew," said Blair Levin, Executive Director of the Omnibus Broadband Initiative at the FCC. "Above all else, the plan is a call to action to meet that challenge for our era. If we meet it, we will have networks, devices, and applications that create new solutions to seemingly intractable problems."

Closing Broadband Gaps

Titled "Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan," the Plan found that while broadband access and use have increased over the past decade, the nation must do much more to connect all individuals and the economy to broadband's transformative benefits. Nearly 100 million Americans lack broadband at home today, and 14 million Americans do not have access to broadband even if they want it. Only 42 percent of people with disabilities use broadband at home, while as few as 5 percent of people living on Tribal lands have access. Meanwhile, the cost of digital exclusion for the student unable to access the Internet to complete a homework assignment, or for the unemployed worker who can't search for a job online, continues to grow.

Other gaps threaten America's global competitiveness. A looming shortage of wireless spectrum could impede U.S. innovation and leadership in popular wireless mobile broadband services. More useful applications, devices, and content are needed to create value for consumers. And the nation has failed to harness broadband's power to transform delivery of government services, health care, education, public safety, energy conservation, economic development, and other national priorities.

America's 2020 Broadband Vision

The Plan's call for action over the next decade includes the following goals and recommendations:

• Connect 100 million households to affordable 100-megabits-per-second service, building the world's largest market of high-speed broadband users and ensuring that new jobs and businesses are created in America.
• Affordable access in every American community to ultra-high-speed broadband of at least 1 gigabit per second at anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals, and military installations so that America is hosting the experiments that produce tomorrow's ideas and industries.
• Ensure that the United States is leading the world in mobile innovation by making 500 megahertz of spectrum newly available for licensed and unlicensed use.
• Move our adoption rates from roughly 65 percent to more than 90 percent and make sure that every child in America is digitally literate by the time he or she leaves high school.
• Bring affordable broadband to rural communities, schools, libraries, and vulnerable populations by transitioning existing Universal Service Fund support from yesterday's analog technologies to tomorrow's digital infrastructure.
• Promote competition across the broadband ecosystem by ensuring greater transparency, removing barriers to entry, and conducting market-based analysis with quality data on price, speed, and availability.
• Enhance the safety of the American people by providing every first responder with access to a nationwide, wireless, interoperable public safety network.

The Plan was mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and produced by an FCC task force that set new precedents for government openness, transparency, and rigor. Information for the plan was gathered in 36 public workshops, 9 field hearing, and 31 public notices that produced 75,000 pages of public comments. The debate went online with 131 blogposts that triggered 1,489 comments; 181 ideas on IdeaScale garnering 6,100 votes; 69,500 views on YouTube; and 335,000 Twitter followers. The task force augmented this voluminous record with independent research and data-gathering.

About half of the Plan's recommendations are addressed to the FCC, while the remainder are for Congress, the Executive Branch, state and local government, working closely with the private and nonprofit sectors.

Read the National Broadband Plan: http://download.broadband.gov/plan/national-broadband-plan.pdf

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Broadband Plan Recommendations Generally

• Recommendation 4.3 The FCC , in coordination with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ), should establish technical broadband measurement standards and methodology and a process for updating them. The FCC should also encourage the formation of a partnership of industry and consumer groups to provide input on these standards and this methodology.
• Recommendation 4.4 The FCC should continue its efforts to measure and publish data on actual performance of fixed broadband services. The FCC should publish a formal report and make the data available online.
• Recommendation 4.5 The FCC should initiate a rulemaking proceeding by issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM ) to determine performance disclosure requirements for broadband.
• Recommendation 4.6 The FCC should initiate a rulemaking proceeding by issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM ) to determine performance disclosure requirements for broadband.
• Recommendation 4.7 The FCC should comprehensively review its wholesale competition regulations to develop a coherent and effective framework and take expedited action based on that framework to ensure widespread availability of inputs for broadband services provided to small businesses, mobile providers and enterprise customers.
• Recommendation Chapter 6 Infrastructure
  • The FCC should establish rental rates for pole attachments that are as low and close to uniform as possible, consistent with Section 224 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to promote broadband deployment.
  • The FCC should implement rules that will lower the cost of the pole attachment "make-ready" process.
  • The FCC should establish a comprehensive timeline for each step of the Section 224 access process and reform the process for resolving disputes regarding infrastructure access.
  • The FCC should improve the collection and availability of information regarding the location and availability of poles, ducts, conduits and rights-of-way.
  • Congress should consider amending Section 224 of the Act to establish a harmonized access policy for all poles, ducts, conduits and rights-of-way.
  • The FCC should establish a joint task force with state, Tribal and local policymakers to craft guidelines for rates, terms and conditions for access to public rights-of-way. Maximizing impact of federal resources
  • The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) should make federal financing of highway, road and bridge projects contingent on states and localities allowing joint deployment of conduits by qualified parties.
  • Congress should consider enacting "dig once" legislation applying to all future federally funded projects along rightsof- way (including sewers, power transmission facilities, rail, pipelines, bridges, tunnels and roads).
  • Congress should consider expressly authorizing federal agencies to set the fees for access to federal rights-of-way on a management and cost recovery basis.
  • The Executive Branch should develop one or more master contracts to expedite the placement of wireless towers on federal government property and buildings.
• Recommendations Chapter 7 Research and Development
  • 7.1 The government should focus broadband R&D funding on projects with varied risk-return profiles, including a mix of short-term and long-term projects (e.g., those lasting 5 years or longer).
  • 7.2 Congress should consider making the Research and Experimentation (R&E) tax credit a long-term tax credit to stimulate broadband R&D.
  • 7.3 The federal government should provide ultra-high-speed broadband connectivity to select DoD installations to enable the development of next-generation broadband applications.
  • 7.4 The National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (National Academies) should develop a research road map to guide federal R&D funding priorities.
  • 7.5 NSF should establish an open, multi-location, interdisciplinary research center for broadband, addressing technology, policy and economics. Center priorities should be driven by the agenda identified in the National Academies research road map.
  • 7.6 NSF, in consultation with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), should consider funding a wireless testbed for promoting the science underlying spectrum policymaking and a testbed for evaluating the network security needed to provide a secure broadband infrastructure.
  • 7.7 The FCC should start a rulemaking process to establish more flexible experimental licensing rules for spectrum and facilitate the use of this spectrum by researchers.

FCC Launches Development Of National Broadband Plan
Seeks Public Input on Plan to Ensure Every American has Access to Broadband Capability

Washington, D.C. - The Federal Communications Commission today begins the process of developing a national broadband plan that will seek to ensure that every American has access to broadband capability.

In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - known as the stimulus package - Congress charged the Commission with creating a national broadband plan. In a Notice of Inquiry adopted today, the Commission begins a proceeding to create that national broadband plan, seeking input from all stakeholders: consumers, industry, large and small businesses, non-profits, the disabilities community, governments at the federal, state, local and tribal levels, and all other interested parties.

The Commission must deliver the plan to Congress by Feb. Mar. 17, 2010. It will provide a roadmap toward achieving the goal of ensuring that all Americans reap the benefits of broadband. The Recovery Act requires the plan to explore several key elements of broadband deployment and use, and the Commission now seeks comment on these elements, including:

• The most effective and efficient ways to ensure broadband access for all Americans
• Strategies for achieving affordability and maximum utilization of broadband infrastructure and services
• Evaluation of the status of broadband deployment, including the progress of related grant programs
• How to use broadband to advance consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety and homeland security, community development, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, worker training, private sector investment, entrepreneurial activity, job creation, and economic growth, and other national purposes.

Action by the Commission, April 8, 2009, by Notice of Inquiry (FCC 09-31). Acting Chairman Copps, Commissioners Adelstein, and McDowell. Separate statements issued by Acting Chairman Copps, Commissioners Adelstein, and McDowell. Docket No. GN 09-51 : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: April 8, 2009 Mark Wigfield, 202-418-0253 Email: mark.wigfield@fcc.gov

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Workshops: FCC is holding a series of workshops related to the BB Plan. "The goal of the workshops will be to promote an open dialogue between the FCC and key constituents on matters important to the National Broadband Plan. Key constituents will include service providers, equipment providers, applications providers, community groups, and other groups that have a stake in the future of broadband. Workshops will consist of meetings held at the FCC. The public will have the opportunity to suggest meeting topics and questions for the workshops. All meetings will be broadcast over the Internet when possible, and archived for viewing at a later time to ensure that everyone has access to the content. All information gathered in these workshops will be made part of the record in the National Broadband Plan proceeding, GN Docket No. 09-51.  We will treat these as comments in accordance to the Commission Rule 47 CFR Part 1. "

A Google Calendar of the Workshops can be found on the Cybertelecom homepage. Check with Broadband.gov for the latest up to date info.

Broadband Plan Sub-NOIs	How to file comments :: File Comments with FCC Electronic Comment File System
8/20/09 Commission Seeks Targeted Comments on Defining Broadband. Public Notice: Word | Acrobat NBP Public Notice #1 GN Docket Nos. 09-47, 09-51, 09-137 :: "In this public notice, we seek tailored comment on defining "broadband" for purposes of the Commission's development of a National Broadband Plan (Plan) pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), and for related purposes." Some background definitions.	Comment Due Aug 31, 2009 Replies Due Sept 8, 2009
Implementation of Smart Grid Technology n/a DA DA 09-2017	Comments Due 10/02/09
Telework   DA 09-2018 PN #3	Comments Due 09/22/09
9/1/9 Commission staff have hosted and continue to host a series of broadband workshops in order to better understand the broadband marketplace as well as the social implications and potential of broadband.. . . . We encourage anyone interested to respond to the facts and reasoning asserted during these workshops, or to raise facts and reasoning that should be a have been discussed. Public Notice: Word | Acrobat	Responses to: WS held Aug 6 - 20 due by Sept 15 . WS held Aug 25 - Sept 15 due Oct 2 WS held Sept 16 - Oct 20 due Oct 30.
PN#4 Broadband Accesibility for People With Disabilities Workshop II: Barriers, Opportunities, and Policy Recommendations DA 09-2080	Comments Due 10/06/09
PN#5 Broadband Deployment and Adoption on Tribal Lands DA 09-2093	Comments Due 11/9/9. Replies Due 12/9/9
Released:  09/28/2009.  Comment Sought On Spectrum For Broadband. (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 )  NBP Public Notice #6.  Issued an Erratum correcting Public Notice, DA 09-2100 released September 23, 2009.  WTB TXT	Comments Due 10/23/9; Replies Due 11/13/9
PN#7 Contribution of Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Government to Broadband DA 09-2122	Comments Due 11/6/9
Released: 09/28/2009. ADDITIONAL COMMENT SOUGHT ON PUBLIC SAFETY, HOMELAND SECURITY, AND CYBERSECURITY ELEMENTS OF NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN. (DA No. 09-2133). (Dkt No 94-102 09-137 06-229 07-100 09-47 06-150 05-196 07-114 09-51 ) NBP Public Notice # 8, PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED. WCB . Contact: Jennifer A. Manner at (202) 418-3619 TXT	Comments Due: 11/12/2009.
Released: 09/28/2009. Comments Sought On Opportunities For Disadvantaged Businesses In The Age Of Broadband. (DA No. 09-2137). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) NBP Public Notice # 9, Pleading Cycle Established. WCB . Contact: Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 11/02/2009.
PN#10 Broadband ClearingHouse DA 09-2197	Comments Due 11/06/9
PN#11 Middle Mile DA 09-2186	Comments Due 11/4/9
PN#12 Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber DA 09-2194	Comments Due 10/28/9
10/14/09 Comments Sought on Broadband Study Conducted by The Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Public Notice: Word | Acrobat NBP Public Notice # 13	Comments Due ___
11/03/2009. Comment Sought On Broadband Needs In Education, Including Changes To E-Rate Program To Improve Broadband Deployment Npb Public Notice # 15. (Da No. 09-2376). (Dkt No 09-137 02-6 05-195 09-47 09-51 ) Pleading Cycle Established. WCB . Contact: Anita Cheng at (202) 418-7400 or Sharren Bates at (202) 418-3615 TXT	Comments Due: 11/20/2009. Reply Comments Due: 12/11/2009.
Released: 11/10/2009. Comment Sought On Broadband Adoption. (Da No. 09-2403). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Nbp Public Notice #16, Pleading Cycle Established. WCB . Contact: Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/02/2009.
Released: 11/12/2009. Comment Sought On Relationship Between Broadband And Economic Opportunity. (Da No. 09-2414). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Nbp Public Notice #18. Wcb. Contact: Randy Clarke At (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/04/2009.
Released: 11/12/2009. Comment Sought On Health Care Delivery Elements Of National Broadband Plan. (Da No. 09-2413). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 02-60 09-51 ) Nbp Public Notice#17. Wcb . Contact: Ernesto Beckford At (202) 418-1523 TXT	Comments Due: 12/04/2009.
11/13/2009. Comment Sought On The Role Of The Universal Service Fund And Intercarrier Compensation In The National Broadband Plan. (Da No. 09-2419). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Nbp Notice #19. Wcb . Contact: Carol Mattey At (202) 418-3635 Or Rebekah Goodheart At (202) 418-1438 TXT	Comments Due: 12/07/2009.
11/17/2009. Comment Sought On Moving Toward A Digital Democracy. (Da No. 09-2431). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Pleading Cycle Established, Nbp Notice #20. . Wcb . Contact: Randy Clarke At (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/10/2009
Released: 11/18/2009. Comment Sought On Research Necessary For Broadband Leadership. (Da No. 09-2434). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Nbp Public Notice #22 - Pleading Cycle Established. . Wcb . Contact: Randy Clarke At (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/08/2009
Released: 11/18/2009. Comment Sought On Data Portability And Its Relationship To Broadband. (Da No. 09-2433). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Nbp Public Notice #21 - Pleading Cycle Established. Wcb . Contact: Randy Clarke At (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/09/2009.
11/20/2009.  Comments Sought On Network Deployment Study Conducted By The Columbia Institute For Tele-Information. (Da No. 09-2458). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 )  Nbp Public Notice #23 - Pleading Cycle Established. Wcb . Contact:  Randy Clarke At (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due:  12/04/2009.
11/24/2009. Comment Sought On Broadband Measurement And Consumer Transparency Of Fixed Residential And Small Business Services In The United States. (DA No. 09-2474). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) NBP PUBLIC NOTICE #24 - PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED. WCB . Contact: Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/14/2009.
Released: 12/01/2009. Comment Sought On Transition From Circuit-Switched Network To All-Ip Network. (Da No. 09-2517). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 ) Nbp Public Notice # 25, Pleading Cycle Established. WCB . Contact: Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/21/2009.
Released: 12/02/2009. Comment Sought On Uses Of Spectrum. (Da No. 09-2518). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51) Nbp Public Notice # 26, Pleading Cycle Established. . WCB . Contact: Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due: 12/21/2009
Video Device Innovation DA 09-2519 #27	Comments Due 12/21/2009
Broadband Deployment Financing #28 DA 09-2610	Comments Due 1/8/2010
Released:  01/13/2010.  Comments Sought On Privacy Issues Raised By The Center For Democracy And Technology. (DA No.  10-62). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 )  NBP Public Notice #29, Pleading Cycle Established. .  WCB . Contact:   Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Comments Due:  01/22/2010
Released:  01/13/2010.  Reply Comments Sought In Support Of National Broadband Plan. (DA No.  10-61). (Dkt No 09-137 09-47 09-51 )  NBP Public Notice #30. .  WCB . Contact:   Randy Clarke at (202) 418-1500 TXT	Reply Comments Due:  01/27/2010

• Released:  08/27/2010.  Comment Sought On Improving International Comparisons Required By The Broadband Data Improvement Act. (DA No. 10-1609). (Dkt No 10-171 )  PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED. Comments Due: 09/27/2010. Reply Comments Due:  10/12/2010.  IB . Contact:  Arthur Lechtman TXT

• OBI Technical Paper No. 4: Broadband Performance.   An analysis of residential consumer usage of broadband and the performance of fixed
  broadband connections in the U.S. Action by:  OBI by REPORT.  WCB
• FCC SURVEY RESULTS ON BROADBAND SPEED.  Study. News Media Contact: Rosemary Kimball  CGB TXT
• CONSUMER TIPS: BROADBAND MADE SIMPLE.  FACT SHEET. News Media Contact: Rosemary Kimball  CGB TXT
• FCC SURVEY FINDS 4 OUR OF 5 AMERICANS DON'T KNOW THEIR BROADBAND SPEEDS.   Agency Announces Plans for National Speed Testing, Starts Recruitment for 10,000 Volunteers.  News Release. News Media Contact: Rosemary Kimball at (202) 418-0511, email: Rosemary.Kimball@fcc.gov  CGB TXT
• National Association Of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Petition For Clarification Or Declaratory Ruling That No FCC Order Or Rule Limits State Authority To Collect Broadband Data.   Granted in part a petition for declaratory ruling filed by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) regarding State authority to collect data from broadband infrastructure and service providers. (Dkt No.  09-193). Action by:  the Commission. Adopted:  04/23/2010 by MO&O. (FCC No. 10-70).  WCB
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• Providing Eligible Entities Access To Aggregate Form 477 Data/Implementation Of The Broadband Data Improvement Act Of 2008/A National Broadband Plan For Our Future.   FCC fulfills congressional mandate to provide aggregate broadband data to state mapping grant recipients. Action by:  the Commission. Adopted:  04/26/2010 by ORDER. (FCC No. 10-71).  WCB TXT
• FCC Announces May 6 Broadband Workshop On Availability Gap Technical Paper. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• 5/6/10 Statement by Chairman Genachowski, "The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework"
• 5/6/10 Statement of FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick, "A Third-Way Legal Framework for Addressing the Comcast Dilemma"
• PREPARED REMARKS OF FCC CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI, "DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY: A BROADBAND PLAN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES". OCH . National Museum of American History, Washington, DC TXT
  • FCC CHAIRMAN GENACHOWSKI ANNOUNCES CHILDREN'S AGENDA FOR DIGITAL OPPORTUNITY. Chairman outlines recommendations in national broadband plan to help children and empower parents. News Release. News Media Contact: Janice Wise at (202) 418-8165, email: Janice.Wise@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• FCC & Knight Foundation Host Digital Inclusion Summit At Newseum On March 9. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• Strategies To Increase Broadband Adoption & Use Gain Support. Leaders, Citizens Gather at Knight/FCC Forum to Discuss Recommendations in FCC's National Broadband Plan. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• Broadband And Civic Engagement: FCC Discusses Broadband Plan At MIT Summit. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• FCC To Release Study Focusing On Role Of Community-Based Organizations In Lowering Barriers To Broadband. Study Examines Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• 2/18/10 Broadband Plan's Working Recommendations for Key National Priorities Unveiled. News Release: Word | Acrobat
  Report: Acrobat Genachowski Statement: Word | Acrobat

• Options For A National Broadband Plan. Task Force Provides Framework for Final Phase in Development of Plan. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
  • CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI PREPARED REMARKS ON NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN, FCC OPEN AGENDA MEETING,. OCH . WASHINGTON, D.C TXT
  • Remarks Of Commissioner Michael J. Copps At The Fcc Workshop On Speech, Democracy And The Open Internet. CMMR . WASHINGTON, DC TXT
  • Remarks Of Commissioner Robert M. Mcdowell, Federal Communications Commission, "Speech, Civic Engagement And The Open Internet" Workshop. Cmmr . Washington, D.C., As prepared for delivery TXT
• Broadband Task Force Delivers Status Report On Feb. 17 National Broadband Plan. Staff Details State of U.S. Broadband, Outlines Path Forward. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT
• 4/8/09 FCC Launches Development of National Broadband Plan.
  News Release: Word | Acrobat
  Notice of Inquiry: Word | Acrobat
  Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
  Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
  McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat

Comment Date: June 8, 2009
Reply Comment Date: July 7, 2009

A NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN FOR OUR FUTURE.  
Extended to July 21, 2009 Reply Comment Deadline
for National Broadband Plan NOI. On February 17, 2009, the President signed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, tasking the FCC with developing a National Broadband Plan by February 17, 2010. (Dkt No.  09-51 ). Action by:  By the Acting Chief,
Wireline Competition Bureau. Reply Comments Due:  07/21/2009. Adopted: 06/25/2009 by ORDER. (DA No. 09-1420).  WCB
TXT

July 2009: Harvard's Berkman Center To Conduct Independent Review Of Broadband Studies To Assist FCC. News Release. News Media Contact: Jen Howard, (202) 418-0506, Jen.howard@fcc.gov OCH TXT

CHAIRMAN JULIUS GENACHOWSKI PREPARED REMARKS ON NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN PROCESS, FCC OPEN MEETING, WASHINGTON, D.C.,  JULY 2, 2009 by Statement. OCH   TXT

Workshops

Panelists Announced For Dec 10. Broadband Staff Workshop On Global Broadband. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT

Commission Announces Hearing On Capital Formation In The Broadband Sector. Panel of Experts on the Capital Markets to Testify. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253 WCB TXT

Field Hearings

FCC Announces Agenda And Panelists For Dec. 21 Broadband Field Hearing On Small Business At The University Of Chicago. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, CGB TXT

FCC Hosts Broadband Plan Field Hearing In Charleston, S.C. Sets date and time for FCC field hearing represented by Commissioners Clyburn and Copps. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT 

FCC Announces Initial Broadband Field Hearings. Visits are Part of Outreach for Development of National Broadband Plan. News Release. News Media Contact: Mark Wigfield at (202) 418-0253, email: Mark.Wigfield@fcc.gov OCH TXT 

Legislation

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub. L. No. 111-5 (Recovery Act) signed into law on February 17, 2009

Recovery Act s 6001 (k)

(1) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a report containing a national broadband plan.

(2) The national broadband plan required by this section shall seek to ensure that all people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. The plan shall also include--

(A) an analysis of the most effective and efficient mechanisms for ensuring broadband access by all people of the United States;

(B) a detailed strategy for achieving affordability of such service and maximum utilization of broadband infrastructure and service by the public;

(C) an evaluation of the status of deployment of broadband service, including progress of projects supported by the grants made pursuant to this section; and

(D) a plan for use of broadband infrastructure and services in advancing consumer welfare, civic participation, public safety and homeland security, community development, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, worker training, private sector investment, entrepreneurial activity, job creation and economic growth, and other national purposes.

(3) In developing the plan, the Commission shall have access to data provided to other Government agencies under the Broadband Data Improvement Act (47 U.S.C. 1301 note).

News

• OECD Releases Report on National Broadband Plans, Michael Geist 6/22/2011
• Happy Birthday NBP, AT&T 3/21/2011
• One Year Later, FCC 3/17/2011
• Blair Levin Still Ignoring Lack Of Broadband Competition - Now downplaying high prices as well, dslreports 11/3/2010
• The Limits of Philosophy, FCC 9/15/2009
• National Broadband Plan: Competition Policy Is Key, Free Press 12/17/2009
• GAO to FCC: Wireless users need more protection, CNET 12/15/2009
• Americans Doubt Government Role in Broadband, Internet News 8/16/2010
• The FCC and the bandwidth wars, WAPO 8/16/2010
• Changes in the price of broadband, Virulent Word Mouse 8/2/2010
• Federal Register Notice: Cybersecurity and Innovation in the Information Economy, NTIA 7/7/2010
• FCC eyes first step toward broadband regulation, CW 6/17/2010
• More Experts Weigh in on FCC Authority, Nextgenweb 6/17/2010
• When It Comes to Investments, FCC Is Doing All Right, Gigaom 6/17/2010
• US broadband: still expensive, underwhelming, Ars Technica 6/14/2010
• PFF News (6/9/10): PFF Praises Internet Technical Advisory Group - TAG Will Provide Important Dispute Resolution Process..., PFF 6/9/2010
• FCC Hints At Return To Open Access - Companies are of course, annoyed..., dslreports 11/24/2009
• US broadband plan 'not a priority', BBC 8/16/2010
• Failure of the Broadband Plan?, Circleid 7/21/2010
• FCC broadband plan will put US in "second tier of countries", Ars Technica 7/12/2010
• FCC chair: We have a plan for better broadband, CNET 6/4/2010
• 4 Out Of 5 In U.S. Don't Know Their Broadband Speeds - ...And 91% are satisfied by the speeds they don't know they have...., dslreports 6/1/2010
• Widely Publicized FCC Study Demonstrates User Ignorance, Internet Statistics 6/1/2010
• FCC Leaders (and Alum) Continue to Boost Broadband Plan, Nextgenweb 5/21/2010
• FCC computes subsidies needed to bring broadband to rural, Digital Society 5/12/2010
• Critics attack US broadband plans, BBC 5/5/2010
• People Start To Realize The Broadband Plan Has a Broadband Tax - Though it remains unclear how much it will be..., dslreports 4/30/2010
• Spectrum Issues in NBP, Spectrum Talks 4/30/2010
• Providing Eligible Entities Access To Aggregate Form 477 Data/Implementation Of The Broadband Data Improvement Act Of 2008/A National Broadband Plan For Our Future., FCC 4/28/2010
• FCC Plows Ahead With Broadband Plan Despite Comcast Ruling, Gigaom 4/23/2010
• NBP Lift-Off!, CommLawBlog 4/23/2010
• FCC Chair: Broadband Plan Won't Be Derailed, Ecommerce Times 4/16/2010
• etc: FCC broadband plan advisor Blair Levin is leaving for the private sector, starting at the Aspen Institute on May 7., Ars Technica 4/16/2010
• Senator vows Congressional support for FCC on broadband, Wash Post 4/16/2010
• Senator pledges support for Net neutrality, broadband plan, CW 4/16/2010
• The National Broadband Plan and Small Business, Google 4/14/2010
• Legal limbo for US broadband plan, BBC 4/7/2010
• Working Together on Broadband Speed Disclosure for Consumers, FCC 4/7/2010
• FCC Broadband Plan: A Mile Wide and Three Inches Deep, Save the Internet 4/1/2010
• FCC begins rollout of national broadband policies, Wash Post 4/1/2010
• FCC Grilled on Spectrum, Net Neutrality Plans, Internet News 3/26/2010
• Free Press and New America Foundation Demand Immediate FCC Action on Broadband, Free Press 3/26/2010
• The FCC's narrow view of broadband, Wash Post 3/24/2010
• The FCC's Best-Laid Plans, MAP 3/24/2010
• FCC's plan for broadband Internet access falls short, Wash Post 3/19/2010
• The FCC's National Broadband Jigsaw Puzzle, PFF 3/19/2010
• NBP - Spectrum Issues, Spectrum Talks 3/19/2010
• American Library Association outlines positions on National Broadband Plan, ALA 3/19/2010
• Community groups applaud broadband plan, but stress that there's a ways to go for closing the digital divide, Reclaim the Media 3/19/2010
• FCC to Release Ambitious, Pragmatic National Broadband Plan, WIRED 3/15/2010
• FCC plan would greatly expand broadband Internet connections, Wash Post 3/15/2010
• FCC Releases Copy Of The National Broadband Plan - 376 pages of ideas, though plan seems light on data..., dslreports 3/15/2010
• A broadband catapult for America, Google 3/15/2010
• CTIA Statement on FCC's Release of the National Broadband Plan, CTIA 3/15/2010
• The FCC Talks National Broadband Plan, Nextgenweb 3/15/2010
• USTelecom Statement on National Broadband Plan Executive Summary, USTelecom 3/15/2010
• FCC Releases Executive Summary Preview of National Broadband Plan, WISPA 3/15/2010
• Chairman Rockefeller Statement on National Broadband Plan, Senate Commerce 3/15/2010
• 9/11 Commissioners: Broadband Plan Can Help Keep Nation's Promise to First Responders, FCC 3/15/2010
• FCC's Broadband Plan: The Role Of Competition, Gigaom 3/15/2010
• What's Wrong With the FCC's Consumer Broadband Test?, Circleid 3/15/2010
• Will the FCC's National Broadband Plan Really Be Costless?, PFF 3/15/2010
• Day 1 of the National Broadband Plan, Benton 3/15/2010
• Bright light on high-speed Internet access, Crawford 3/15/2010
• It's Time to Save the Broadband "Cop on the Beat", PK 3/15/2010
• FCC's positive new plan for digital literacy & Net safety, Net Family News 3/15/2010
• FCC's national broadband plan: What's next?, CW 3/15/2010
• Broadband plan sent to Congress, BBc 3/15/2010
• FCC's broadband plan wins general praise, CW 3/15/2010
• FCC plan calls for 'minimal' public safety fee for all broadband users, CW 3/15/2010
• The FCC avoids the easy solution to broadband problem, Wash Post 3/15/2010
• Press Release: NATOA Applauds FCC's National Broadband Plan, NATOA 3/15/2010
• The National Broadband Plan, FCC 3/15/2010
• Growth, Prosperity, Broadband, FCC 3/15/2010
• FCC Chair Genachowksi on Broadband, Geist 3/15/2010
• Want To Know How Meaningless The FCC's Broadband Plan Is? No One Is Upset By It, Techdirt 3/15/2010
• CTIA Statement on Accessibility Initiatives Announced by FCC, CTIA 3/12/2010
• 27 Companies & Assoc Say "Thank you" to FCC on NBP, CTIA 3/12/2010
• Broadband Infrastructure Policy for the 21st Century, FCC 3/12/2010
• FCC launches broadband test site for consumers, CW 3/12/2010
• Critical Role of Broadband in Education Addressed by FCC, DoED, Nextgenweb 3/12/2010
• Transparency in Broadband Performance - iPhone Apps, Broadband Tests, and other cool new tools..., FCC 3/12/2010
• FCC Launches Consumer Broadband Test, Mlab 3/12/2010
• FCC to propose national digital literacy corps, CW 3/12/2010
• Digital Inclusion Summit Tomorrow, FCC 3/9/2010
• Keeping Up With the Joneses, FCC 3/9/2010
• Broadband: What's Your Need for Speed?, FCC 3/9/2010
• Genachowski's Secret $15 bn Piggy Bank, or T-mobile Triumphs Over M2Z., Tales from the Sausage Factory 3/9/2010
• How much hate will the National Broadband Plan get?, Ars Technica 3/9/2010
• Broadband And Civic Engagement: Fcc Discusses Broadband Plan At Mit Summit, FCC 3/2/2010
• FCC To Release Study Focusing On Role Of Community-Based Organizations In Lowering Barriers To Broadband , FCC 3/2/2010
• FCC's broadband plan critiqued as overly broad, unfeasible, CW 3/2/2010
• FCC to Call for Government Data Overhaul, Internet News 3/2/2010
• FCC Afraid To Tackle Open Access - Broadband plan architect believes there's 'no appetite' for it. Wait, what?, dslreports 3/2/2010
• Genachowski Outlines Spectrum Overhaul, Internet News 2/25/2010
• FCC aims to free up 500MHz of spectrum for broadband, CW 2/25/2010
• How the National Broadband Plan Will Encourage Investment, FCC 2/25/2010
• Surprise! Cost, Digital Literacy at Heart of Broadband Gap, Gigaom 2/25/2010
• FCC: Broadband Adoption and Use in America, Pew 2/25/2010
• CTIA Statement On Chairman Genachowski's Wireless Broadband Announcements, CTIA 2/25/2010
• Public Interest Groups to Hold Press Event to Call for Bold, Practical National Broadband Plan, MAP 2/16/2010
• WISPA Files Final National Broadband Comments, WISPA 1/28/2010
• WISPA Files Comments on National Broadband Plan "Challenges to Broadband Deployment Financing", WISPA 1/15/2010
• Replies Requested: Last Call, FCC 1/15/2010
• Reply Comments Sought In Support Of National Broadband Plan Due Jan 27, FCC 1/15/2010
• Comments Sought On Privacy Issues Raised By The Center For Democracy And Technology, FCC 1/15/2010
• CTIA Statement On FCC's Request for Additional Time to Submit National Broadband Plan, CTIA 1/8/2010
• National Broadband Plan - Worth the Wait, Comcast 1/8/2010
• The Star Trek Guide to the National Broadband Plan, PK 1/8/2010
• Public Knowledge Statement on Delay of Broadband Plan, PK 1/8/2010
• FCC's underwhelming-looking broadband plan also tardy, Ars Technica 1/8/2010
• National Broadband Plan Deadline Moved Back Four Weeks, CommLawBlog 1/8/2010
• FCC Commissioners Haven't Seen Broadband Plan - And Commissioner vote not required when plan is finished..., dslreports 1/6/2010
• FCC Filing: NTIA Sends Letter to the FCC on the National Broadband Plan, NTIA 1/5/2010
• The Media Bureau v. The National Broadband Plan, PK 12/22/2009
• Updating the Berkman Center's broadband study for the FCC, Berkman Center 12/22/2009
• NTIA Comments on National Broadband Plan (PDF 709KB), NTIA 12/18/2009
• Free Press: Solutions to the 'Competition Crisis' Missing from the National Broadband Plan, Free Press 12/17/2009
• Public Knowledge Disappointed with FCC Broadband Plan, PK 12/17/2009
• FCC Takes on Cable But Not Carriers With National Broadband Plan, Gigaom 12/17/2009
• FCC digs into broadband controversies, CNET 12/17/2009
• Support the FCC Broadband Plan Policy Framework - I was Wrong to Abandon Hope, Cook 12/17/2009
• ALA urges FCC to consider role of libraries in economic development, ALA 12/8/2009
• FCC Launches Major Rewrite Of Phone Rules, CommLawBlog 12/8/2009
• Future Broadband Deployment: Columbia Institute for Teleinformation Report, FCC 12/4/2009
• FCC Ponders Moving From PSTN To IP Voice - Wants input on how to make it happen..., dslreports 12/4/2009
• An Open Letter To Blair Levin On The Subject of National Broadband Public Notices, Tales from the Sausage Factory 12/4/2009
• NATOA Files Comments to the FCC on "Cost Estimates for Connecting Anchor Institutions to Fiber", NATOA 12/1/2009
• FCC Identifies Broadband Gaps, bandwidth reports 12/1/2009
• The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?, CW 11/24/2009
• I've joined the FCC National Broadband Plan team, ISEN 11/13/2009
• New Staff Bring Deep Experience to National Broadband Plan, FCC 11/13/2009
• WISPs Weigh in on Middle Mile Broadband Questions, WISPA 11/10/2009
• A National Broadband Clearinghouse, FCC 11/4/2009
• Cyber Security, FCC 11/4/2009
• Comments Sought On Broadband Study Conducted By The Berkman Center For Internet And Society, FCC 10/20/2009
• Berkman Center Releases Broadband Study for FCC, Says Open Access Key to Competition, Performance, CircleID 10/20/2009
• A National Broadband Clearinghouse, FCC 10/15/2009
• FCC Dives Deep on Broadband Economics, Nextgenweb 10/13/2009
• The Second and Middle Mile Challenge, FCC 10/13/2009
• Public Missing from FCC Broadband Workshops, Free Press 10/13/2009
• Pro-telecom group misses out on first broadband stimulus $$$, Ars Technica 10/13/2009
• FCC to investigate "gating" role of middle-mile access lines, Ars Technica 10/13/2009
• FCC: We're Halfway Done With National Broadband Plan - It could cost between $20 and $350 billion to get job done, dslreports 10/1/2009
• FCC Panel: Cybersecurity Needs Incentives, Internet News 10/1/2009
• Cyber Security Workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 30., FCC 9/29/2009
• Numbers, FCC 9/29/2009
• Is broadband a general purpose technology?, FCC 9/29/2009
• Mid-Term Review, FCC 9/29/2009
• Eugene Huang: 9/29 FCC Open Commission Meeting, FCC 9/29/2009
• Broadband Now: National Broadband Plan, USTelecom 9/24/2009
• Connected Nation Provides FCC with Teleworking Research, Connected Nation 9/24/2009
• Field Hearing in Austin, TX, FCC 9/22/2009
• Big Content to FCC: don't kill our ISP filtering dream!, Ars Technica 9/22/2009
• In the Know with Gigi Sohn: The Role of Content in the Broadband Ecosystem, PK 9/22/2009
• Who's Running the Show--the FCC or Hollywood Execs?, PK 9/22/2009
• Let's All Get Connected - A Message for the FCC on Health Care, Nextgenweb 9/17/2009
• Benchmarks and the Broadband Ecology., Tales from the Sausage Factory 9/17/2009
• Broadband speeds in the United States are shockingly low, Muni 9/17/2009
• AT&T to FCC: gaming is not "broadband," but an added service, Ars Technica 9/15/2009
• Is There a Relationship Between Online Safety Concerns and Broadband Uptake?, Tech Lib Front 9/10/2009
• Input Sought on Sept. 30 Cyber Security Workshop, FCC 9/10/2009
• Big-League ISPs Press FCC to Lower Bar on 'Broadband', Ecommerce Times 9/8/2009
• Broadband Helps Provide 3.1 Million Jobs, USTelecom 9/8/2009
• Study Reveals Student Gains From Online Learning, USTelecom 9/8/2009
• FCC Workshop Explores Broadband Benchmarks, Nextgenweb 9/8/2009
• 5 Minutes with Harold Feld: "Benchmarks and Broadband Ecology", PK 9/8/2009
• Big Broadband Ideas, Benton 9/8/2009
• The Apps and Devices Workshop, FCC 9/8/2009
• Virtually There? The Telework Public Notice, FCC 9/8/2009
• Broadband's contribution to economic growth, who is a contrarian?, Virulent Word Mouse 9/1/2009
• FCC Hires Industry Shill to Develop US National Broadband Plan, Open Left 9/1/2009
• FCC broadband workshop on applications and devices: 27 Aug 2009, Muni 8/27/2009
• Be Safe with Broadband, Nextgenweb 8/27/2009
• Broadband Adoption: If We Build It, Will They Come?, FCC 8/27/2009
• Broadband Adoption Barriers, FCC 8/27/2009
• Broadband Opportunities for People With Disabilities, FCC 8/25/2009
• Broadband Opportunities for Disadvantaged Businesses, FCC 8/25/2009
• FCC Launches New Broadband Plan Blog - Blair Levin leads 'assault of sustained thinking...', dslreports 8/20/2009
• @USA: We're Writing the National Broadband Plan!, Wired 8/20/2009
• FCC Probes Demand Side of Broadband Debate, Internet News 8/20/2009
• Broadband plan needs to address demand, advocates say, CW 8/20/2009
• FCC Hears From Experts on Broadband Adoption, Nextgenweb 8/20/2009
• Workshop Summary: Technology/Wireless, Blogband 8/20/2009
• How can Broadband Services Benefit Consumers?, Digital Beat 8/20/2009
• From Wires to People, Benton 8/20/2009
• Building the Fact Base: Broadband Adoption and Use, Benton 8/20/2009
• Broadband Workshops Viewable At Broadband.gov - All discussions are being recorded and archived..., dslreports 8/18/2009
• 5 Signs Our Broadband Plan May Already Be In Trouble - Meet the new heavily-lobbied boss. Same as the old heavily-lobbied boss?, dslreports 8/18/2009
• FCC Apparently Not Very Concerned About Consumer Views On Broadband, Techdirt 8/18/2009
• Are the FCC Workshops Fair?, CircleID 8/18/2009
• Public Knowledge Statement on FCC Broadband Workshops, PK 8/18/2009
• Broadband, Open Government, and Brainstorms, OSTP 8/11/2009
• FCC Kicks Off Broadband Roadshow, Internet News 8/7/2009
• ALA: FCC should consider role, benefits of libraries in National Broadband Plan, ALA 8/7/2009
• Genachowski Remarks at National Broadband Plan Workshop, WISPA 8/7/2009
• Broadband's Impact on Citizen Engagement, Pew Internet 8/7/2009
• FCC Hosts 18 Summer Blockbuster Broadband Hearings, Wired 8/7/2009
• Levin: Your Broadband Comments Weren't Helpful - Broadband plan leader complains of sloppy, vague suggestions..., dslreports 7/27/2009
• "Net neutrality" gets white hot as FCC drafts broadband plan, Ars Technica 7/27/2009
• FCC Insider Levin Calls for Citizen Participation, Internet News 7/7/2009
• U.S. Government Launches New Broadband Website - 226 Days until we actually have a broadband plan..., dslreports 7/7/2009
• National Broadband map is just the beginning, blogger says, Connected Nation 7/2/2009
• Internet, Not Broadband, for National Policy, Peer Flow 6/25/2009
• The FCC Gets Bombarded With Broadband Opinions - Everybody, at once, chimes in on new broadband plan..., dslreports 6/11/2009
• WCAI Urges FCC to Make Mobility Cornerstone of America's Broadband Plan, WCAI 6/9/2009
• WISPA Files Response to FCC NOI on National Broadband Strategy, WISPA 6/9/2009
• NATOA, 17 Other Supporters, File Comprehensive National Broadband Comments with FCC, NATOA 6/9/2009
• Media Access Project Asks FCC To Prioritize First Amendment Values in Developing National Broadband Plan, MAP 6/9/2009
• "It's The Internet Stupid" .I Respectfully Disagree, CircleID 6/9/2009
• Tucows CEO tells why It's the Internet Stupid, ISEN 6/9/2009
• Public Interests Groups Tell FCC Broadband Should Be Treated As 'Essential Utility'-New Regulatory Structure, Spectrum Caps, Ope, PK 6/9/2009

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