Archive for September, 2009

At a Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies meeting earlier this week, FCC Chairman Genachowski noted that America must measure our broadband progress not only by the ability to extend access to every home, but also by our success in encouraging minority communities, low-income families and under-privileged communities to make broadband part of their lives.

Yesterday, during a speech at the Brookings Institute, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new rules that would affect Internet access providers. Saying the FCC must be a "smart cop on the beat preserving a free and open Internet," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Monday proposed adding two new Internet access principles to the existing four, and will begin the process of codifying all of them with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking at the FCC’s October meeting.

At a time when our country is developing a National Broadband Plan, it absolutely makes sense to have a single definition of the term “broadband” for regulatory and policy purposes.