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National Broadband Plan: Ensuring Affordable and High-Speed Access for All Americans

The National Broadband Plan, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, aims to ensure affordable broadband access for every American. It focuses on analyzing the most effective strategies for deployment, utilization, and inclusion. Key goals include providing access to 100 Mbps download speeds for 100 million homes by 2020, fostering mobile innovation, and ensuring that every community has access to at least 1 Gbps service. The plan emphasizes competition, efficient asset management, and reforming policies to maximize broadband benefits for all sectors.

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National Broadband Plan: Ensuring Affordable and High-Speed Access for All Americans

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  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.

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