Free Press Offers "Big Ideas" for Broadband Workshop

Free Press spoke with Tamara Lipper-Smith of the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis on July 13, 2009 to discuss the national broadband plan. Free Press said the FCC contacted Free Press to solicit input on which issues consumer advocates would like addressed in the National Broadband Plan Staff Workshop No. 17, listed as "Best Practices/Big Ideas." Free Press indicated issues consumer advocates would like addressed in these workshops, including middle mile, spectrum sharing, Internet architecture and innovation, and overhauling USF for the broadband era.