The FCC and Broadband: 
The Next 230 Days
FCC Commission Meeting
July 2, 2009
Washington D.C.
*Partial list. 


The National 
Broadband Plan

• Advancing consumer welfare
• Civic participation
• Public safety and homeland 
security 
• Community development
• Health care delivery 
• Energy independence and 
efficiency
• Education
• Worker training
• Private sector investment
• Entrepreneurial activity 
• Job creation and economic growth
•Other national purposes
•What is the current situation?
•What will be the near term situation without a change 
in government policy?
•What will be the areas where there are demonstrable 
public interest harms?
•What are ways of lessening the public interest harms?






*All recommendation require further Government action 
providing opportunity for further public input prior to adoption