FCC extends broadband plan reply comment deadline | Broadcasting & Cable

Stakeholders will have some extra time to ponder the many possible variations on broadband deployment. The FCC has extended the reply comment deadline for its national broadband plan to July 21.

Several parties asked for the extention, pointing to the fact that there were more than 500 comments, some lengthy and detailed, that were being replied to. The initial reply comment deadline had been July 7. The FCC cited the "vastness of the record" and "magnitude of the issues involved" in granting the extension, and said it does not routinely grant them. But it actually does grant a fair number of extensions over holiday weekends, with the July 7 deadline falling the Tuesday after the July 4 holiday...