FCC kicks off broadband report - Telecom News Wire

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission today begins its sixth inquiry for Congress into the state of broadband in the U.S. – an inquiry that this year is intertwined with the agency’s larger effort to create a National Broadband Plan.

In the Notice of Inquiry released today, the Commission starts with a clean slate against a backdrop of statutory and policy changes. Those changes include Congress’s requirement that the FCC develop a comprehensive National Broadband Plan by Feb. 17, 2010, that it improve its broadband data collection, and the Commission’s own efforts to collect broadband data on a more granular basis...