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The FCC has orchestrated a rollout that’s providing some illumina...

The FCC has orchestrated a rollout that’s providing some illumination of issues leading up to the release of the National Broadband Plan, Stifel Nicolaus said in a research note. Reforming the $8 billion Universal Service Fund and making more…

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spectrum available for wireless broadband “appear to be critical to FCC efforts to spur deployment in unserved areas and boosting speeds and competition where broadband service already exists,” it said. Using broadband to address “national purposes,” like education and health care, could drive up broadband use “that could boost the entire ecosystem.” Major FCC legislative proposals would be difficult to enact during this Congress, given industry and lawmaker divisions, analysts said.