The FCC should make Congress a list of National Broadband Plan...
The FCC should make Congress a list of National Broadband Plan recommendations that the commission believes can’t be carried out without broadband services’ having been reclassified under Title II of the Communications Act, said ranking member Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas,…
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of the Senate Commerce Committee. In a letter Wednesday to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, she said the FCC gave legislators “conflicting reports” on the Comcast decision’s impact. Immediately after the decision, General Counsel Austin Schlick said the ruling had no effect on most of the plan, but when Genachowski announced his proposal to reclassify, he said the ruling threatened action on several important recommendations including a revamp for the Universal Service Fund, Hutchison noted. She also said she wasn’t satisfied with Genachowski’s reply to a letter she sent him in October about network neutrality. “Your response did not provide the information requested, including the number of investigations or enforcement actions involving alleged violations of the Internet Policy Statement that are currently pending at the Commission.” The FCC declined to comment.