The FCC is relying on the NTIA’s new broadband map...
The FCC is relying on the NTIA’s new broadband map to conclude that high-speed broadband services aren’t being deployed “reasonably” or “timely,” commission officials said. Chairman Julius Genachowski’s staff is circulating its annual report, called the “706” report because Section…
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706 of the Telecom Act requires the commission to make sure that advanced technology is reasonably and timely being deployed. The report is due to Congress by the end of the month. As expected, the report once again finds that broadband isn’t reaching Americans quickly or reasonably enough (CD April 12 p11). Last year, the commission relied on its own modeling to argue for its first-ever finding. NTIA’s broadband map is the crux of this year’s study. Last year’s 706 findings have since become important arguments for the commission’s rules on net neutrality, data roaming and the proposed Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation regime reforms.