The National Broadband Plan: One Year Later

Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) and Georgetown University’s Communication Culture and Technology Program
March 18, 2011
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/events/nbp2011reg

The FCC’s National Broadband Plan was released on March 16, 2010. It laid out a number of ambitious long-term goals, including that 100 million US households would have affordable access to 100mbps broadband service within a decade and that the US should be the world leader on mobile broadband innovation with the fastest and most extensive wireless networks of any nation.

After a year, is the Plan “on track”? What is the state of broadband in America in 2011? What has been accomplished and what are the major next steps in the implementation of the Plan? Have any of the facts, circumstances and analyses that underlie the NBP changed in such a way that the Plan itself needs to be amended? How will the Plan be administered and updated over the next decade?

Speakers include: Blair Levin - Aspen Institute and former Executive Director of the FCC’s Omnibus Broadband Initiative (National Broadband Plan); Ruth Milkman - Chief, Wireless Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States; Thomas Power - Chief of Staff, National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Joseph Waz, Senior Vice President External Affairs & Public Policy Counsel, Comcast Corp.; Harold Feld, Legal Director, Public Knowledge