FCC Broadband roadmap aims to bring order to stimulus chaos (updated w/links)

Here's some critical dates as the Federal Communications Commission devises a National Broadband Plan:

1) July 21: deadline for public comments on the plan.

2) July 14 - November 7: As the FCC devises the plan, the Rural Utilities Service and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration are deciding where to award grants to expand broadband deployment, improve public computing centers and encourage sustainable broadband use growth.

3) August 10 - September 2: The FCC will conduct a series of open meetings on its National Broadband Plan, to be streamed on the web. They're outlined on the FCC's new website, broadband.gov, and include gatherings about most every relevant subject, from job creation through public safety use.

4) December 2009: Blair Levin says, "By November I hope to be able to report on our core analysis of the key gaps" in broadband use in the United States, he told the Commissioners, and by December be able to summarize the "various approaches that different parties on the record have stated," and "to get your feedback as to where you would like us to take these."

5) December 8 through February 3: In addition to all this, the FCC has to complete its Sixth Report to Congress Examining the Availability of Advanced Telecommunications which will include international comparisons.

6) February 17: plan due to Congress.