[173791] in North American Network Operators' Group
FCC Releases Tenth Broadband Inquiry NOI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Aug 5 17:14:14 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:13:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended (1996 Act),=
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requires the Commission to determine and report annually on "whether advanc=
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telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a=20
reasonable and timely fashion".
1) This Notice of Inquiry (Inquiry) initiates the Commission=E2=80=99s asse=
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the availability of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans=
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(including, in particular, elementary and secondary schools and classrooms)=
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2) In conducting this Inquiry, the Commission must =E2=80=9Cdetermine wheth=
er advanced=20
telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a=20
reasonable and timely fashion and, if the answer is negative, the Commissio=
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"shall take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability"=
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through a variety of means.
3) In this Inquiry, we solicit data and information that will help the=20
Commission make this determination.
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The PDF versions are at:
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A1.pdf
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A2.pdf
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A3.pdf
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A4.pdf
Unless I'm badly misreading this, in particular, if you have a problem
with the FCC's broadband penetration numbers being predicated on "this
zip has broadband because *these six houses on the north edge of town
have DSL*, then this is where your comments on that will get ignored.
(Their current cutoff, for those who did not know, is 4/1, so DSL
actually *does not qualify as broadband* for Section 706 purposes.)
Cheers,
-- jra
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