Levin: Broadband Comments Don't Move Ball Forward

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: July 21, 2009 1:08:47 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Levin: Broadband Comments Don't Move Ball Forward

LEVIN: BROADBAND COMMENTS DON'T MOVE BALL FORWARD
Blair Levin, leading the Federal Communications Commission's efforts  
to write a National Broadband Plan, is not impressed with the  
submissions from the public and industry, suggesting there was too  
much pie in the sky and not enough pie chart on the page. He said the  
comments lacked helpful data, analysis of tradeoffs and "seriousness  
of purpose." Levin said he had been immersed in reading the first  
round of comments over the past week and was "much less optimistic"  
than he was when then FCC Chairman Michael Copps asked him to come in  
and head up the broadband plan effort. "While there is a lot of  
interesting commentary and a lot of agreement on the opportunities  
that the plan presents," he told his audience, "there is also very  
little in the 8,500-and-some pages that moves the ball forward." In  
fact, he said, there was a lot of agreement on various issues, like  
the need for adoption, but he said the comments don't get the problem  
the FCC faces, which is to come up with a way to get from here to  
there, that is cost efficient and doable.

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