National Broadband Plan

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009– FCC to analyze the most effective way to assure

access to all; develop a strategy for achieving affordability and maximum utilization; evaluate the status of deployment; develop a plan for broadband use

• Plan to reflect strengths– Innovation– Inclusion

• Policies and actions recommended in the plan in three categories– Redirect assets that government controls in order

to spur investment– Foster innovation and competition– Optimize the use of broadband to achieve national

priorities

Goals

• Four categories of recommendations– Design policies to ensure robust competition– Ensure efficient allocation and management of

assets under government control– Reform universal service mechanisms– Reform laws, policies and incentives to maximize

the benefits of broadband in sectors government influences

Goals• 1: at least 100 million US homes to have affordable access to actual

download speeds of at lest 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 by 2020

• 2: US to lead the world in mobile innovation with fastest and most extensive wireless network of any nation

• 3: Every American should have affordable access and the means and skills to subscribe

• 4: Every American community should have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second service to anchor institutions

• 5: Every first responder should have access to a nationwide wireless broadband public safety network

• 6: Every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.