FCC Open Meeting (December 2009)

On December 16, Federal Communications Commission staff will report on the status of the National Broadband Plan, which the FCC must deliver to Congress on Feb. 17, 2010.

The Federal Communications Commission's task force developing a National Broadband Plan presented the FCC's five commissioners with a range of policy options at the agencies monthly meeting Wednesday.

In advance of the Federal Communications Commission discussion of its policy framework for a National Broadband Plan, Free Press released a public interest guide that lays out the central questions that must be answered by the Commission. Free Press points to the creation of better broadband competition as the driving issue behind the plan's success.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski Wednesday called on Internet service providers to come up with a low-cost basic broadband offering to help drive adoption by low-income households.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski again stressed the need for more spectrum during the FCC's meeting on the National Broadband Plan.

Mobile Internet usage is quickly growing to be at least twice as large as the desktop Internet in terms of subscriber numbers, according to Morgan Stanley.

The Federal Communications Commission's interim report on the National Broadband Plan glossed over the fact that service providers in US spend roughly $50 billion a year in capital investment to bring broadband services to their customers, but that investment doesn't get spent evenly across the population. Plus, despite that investment, most Americans don't have a lot of choice about their broadband provider.

The Federal Communications Commission is considering ways to enable access to the Internet through set-top boxes for television sets.

Public Knowledge and Public Knowledge took aim at the Federal Communications Commission's broadband update Wednesday.