National Broadband Plan

1. National Broadband Plan • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 • FCC to analyze the most effective way to assure access to all; develop a strategy for achieving affordability and maximum utilization; evaluate the status of deployment; develop a plan for broadband use • Plan to reflect strengths • Innovation • Inclusion

2. Policies and actions recommended in the plan in three categories • Redirect assets that government controls in order to spur investment • Foster innovation and competition • Optimize the use of broadband to achieve national priorities

3. Goals • Four categories of recommendations • Design policies to ensure robust competition • Ensure efficient allocation and management of assets under government control • Reform universal service mechanisms • Reform laws, policies and incentives to maximize the benefits of broadband in sectors government influences

4. Goals • 1: at least 100 million US homes to have affordable access to actual download speeds of at lest 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 by 2020 • 2: US to lead the world in mobile innovation with fastest and most extensive wireless network of any nation • 3: Every American should have affordable access and the means and skills to subscribe • 4: Every American community should have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second service to anchor institutions • 5: Every first responder should have access to a nationwide wireless broadband public safety network • 6: Every American should be able to use broadband to track and manage their real-time energy consumption.