FCC Workshops

FCC Promoting Dialogue

The upcoming FCC workshops will promote an open dialogue between the FCC and key constituents on matters important to the National Broadband Plan. Key constituents will include service providers, equipment providers, applications providers, community groups, and other groups that have a stake in the future of broadband. Workshops will consist of meetings held at the FCC. The public will have the opportunity to suggest meeting topics and questions for the workshops. All meetings will be broadcast over the Internet when possible, and archived for viewing at a later time to ensure that everyone has access to the content.

http://www.broadband.gov/workshops.html

                                                                                                               

	Issue	Coordinator	Date	Time
10.	Public Safety and Homeland Security	Jennifer Manner	8/25	9:00
11.	Energy, Environment, and Transportation	Nick Sinai	8/25	1:30
12.	Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Private Investment	Nick Maynard	8/26	9:30
13.	Job Training	Andrew Nesi	8/26	1:30
14.	Technology/Applications and Devices	James Miller	8/27	1:30
15.	State and Local Governments: Toolkits and Best Practices	Elise Kohn	9/1	2:00
16.	Benchmarks	Nick Maynard	9/2	1:30
17.	Best Practices/Big Ideas	Jon Peha	9/3	9:30
18.	Broadband Consumer Context	Rachel Kazan	9/9	1:30
19.	Health Care	Tom Buckley	9/15	1:30

FCC Announces Participants in National Broadband Plan Staff Workshops on Deployment, Technology

Washington , D.C.—The Federal Communications Commission’s staff workshops this week for the development of the National Broadband Plan will focus on deployment and technology.

On Wednesday, industry, staff and public participants will examine wireline and wireless deployment, as well as what it means to be unserved or underserved by broadband, why areas or groups are unserved and underserved, and what actions the United States should take to help stimulate broader and faster broadband deployment.

On Thursday, participants will examine both fixed and wireless broadband technologies that are affecting broadband networks today and that will likely affect them in the future.

WHAT: National Broadband Plan Staff Workshops
WHEN: Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 12 &13.  See agendas below for specific times
WHERE: FCC Commission Room, 445 12th St. SW , Washington D.C. 20554
ONLINE: Press and public attending online should register in advance at http://www.broadband.gov/. Click on “Workshops” tab.

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Internet Innovation Alliance Commends FCC Staff Workshops for National Broadband Plan

Encourages Focus on Adoption, Importance of Private Investment and Planning for Future Innovations

WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 6, 2009 – The Internet Innovation Alliance, a broad-based coalition that has long supported a comprehensive national broadband strategy to achieve universal broadband availability and adoption, today released the following statement on its support for the Federal Communications Commission’s staff workshops for the development of a National Broadband Plan, the first of which begins today:

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