FCC Announces Broadband Action Agenda

The Federal Communications Commission announced an ambitious 2010 agenda for implementing key recommendations of the National Broadband Plan that involve rulemakings and other notice-and-comment proceedings.

The agenda explains the purpose and timing of more than 60 rulemakings and other notice-and-comment proceedings the Plan recommends for FCC action. It contains four main goals:

1) Promote World-Leading Mobile Broadband Infrastructure and Innovation,

2) Accelerate Universal Broadband Access and Adoption, and Advance National Purposes Such as Education and Health Care,

3) Foster Competition and Maximize Consumer Benefits Across the Broadband Ecosystem, and

4) Advance Robust and Secure Public Safety Communications Networks.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, "The court decision earlier this week does not change our broadband policy goals, or the ultimate authority of the FCC to act to achieve those goals. The court did not question the FCC's goals; it merely invalidated one technical, legal mechanism for broadband policy chosen by prior Commissions."