Sen Rockefeller warns FCC over direction of broadband plan

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: November 9, 2009 9:41:06 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Sen Rockefeller warns FCC over direction of broadband plan

Sen Rockefeller warns FCC over direction of broadband plan

Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller has a blunt message for the Federal Communications Commission: Don't 
submit a national broadband plan to Congress early next year that's complicated, esoteric, filled with grandiose ideas 
and dependent on protracted rulemaking to implement. "I want to see concrete action on the day the plan is delivered," 
Chairman Rockefeller said recently, referring to the blueprint ordered by Congress to extend broadband service to 
underserved and unserved areas, boost adoption among the 33 percent of citizens who choose not to subscribe and 
dramatically increase the speed and capacity of broadband networks. "A mere menu of options for the FCC and the 
Congress with far-off time frames isn't going to cut it," the senator added. Sources this week described Rockefeller as 
worried the FCC has been lowering expectations about the plan by signaling it could be a work in progress, with 
additional details to be filled in as more data becomes available. In an interview Thursday, Blair Levin, the FCC 
official overseeing the effort, said he's received the message and hopes to deliver to Congress a clear set of 
recommendations, some of which would fall outside the agency's parameters and require approval elsewhere in the Obama 
administration.

<http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091106_6540.php>

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