Mid-Term Review for the National Broadband Plan

It's mid-term review time for the broadband team: on Tuesday, with 141 days left to go before the deadline to deliver a National Broadband Plan to Congress, the National Broadband Plan team is providing the Federal Communications Commission with a major status report on the plan. The team will be laying out some specifics of what it has found out about broadband speeds, spectrum and fiber resources, the increasing cost of digital exclusion, and the benefits to the economy and to individual citizens that broadband can provide. Levin writes: "We'll look at the adequacy of the tools available to promote robust, universal broadband — tools such as universal service. We'll be fielding questions about all of this and seeking guidance from the commissioners about whether we're on the right track in our examination as we proceed toward developing recommendations for the plan. We also want the public to weigh on the facts and analysis we will present so we can make adjustments now, while we are still at a relatively early point in the process, rather than later, after decisions have been made."