Consumer Organizations Request Improvements in FCC's Broadband Data Collection

Free Press, the Consumer Federation of America, New America Foundation, the Media Access Project, Public Knowledge and Consumers Union have sent Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski a letter offering a set of proposals that reflect both the chairman's desire to run a "fact-based, data-driven agency" and their priorities for policies specific to open items related to broadband data.

The groups ask the FCC to:

1) expand collection of broadband data from Internet service providers,

2) better coordinate broadband data collection with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and

3) upgrade the FCC's Automated Reporting Management Information System used to collect financial and operational data from the largest carriers.