The Federal Communications Commission's job of writing a National broadband Plan is made more challenging by various impediments:
1) Rapidly-changing markets and technologies;
2) Economics of communications infrastructure.
3) Lack of timely, relevant, and objective broadband deployment and adoption data.
4) Shortage of time to develop and adopt a plan.
Google proposes adopting a data-driven, iterative, evolving policy process. Under such a process, the Commission can accurately assess the market conditions, oversee implementation of tailored projects and programs, and evaluate their realworld impact on an on-going basis. This is in contrast to adopting a one-time blueprint that tries to account for all known and unknown variables, and prescribes definitive solutions.
