Today, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative and Free Press released The National Broadband Plan: Unanswered Questions and Next Steps. While the National Broadband Plan represents vision and an important policy shift for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the analysis finds the Plan's goals and policies must be bolder if the U.S. is to close digital divides in rural and urban areas, and allow the U.S. to improve its international broadband ranking.
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The joint analysis confronts nine key facets of the plan: goals and benchmarks, competition, universal service, adoption, spectrum, infrastructure, transparency, data collection and analysis, and jurisdiction. For each area, The National Broadband Plan: Unanswered Questions and Next Steps provides a three-fold analysis:
Highlights the problems with the current state of broadband deployment and adoption in the United States and compares the goals set in the Plan with those of other industrialized countries.
Summarizes and evaluates the Plan’s recommendations, with a particular emphasis on whether the Plan’s recommendations will enable the Commission to meet its goals.
Recommends next steps for new policy and calls attention to the work that remains if we are to bridge the digital divide at home and abroad.
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