Every year, the FCC is required by Congress to “determine whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonably and timely fashion.” This is officially called the Broadband Progress Report, a title that indicates it should report on growth, development and advancement of broadband in America.
Any cursory and objective review of the statistics, even those from the Commission itself, should compel an overwhelming affirmative conclusion. Unfortunately, what should be an unbiased, data-driven assessment has largely been supplanted by an ends-driven political process used to justify the ever-expanding reach of the FCC’s regulatory authority. The result is the unsupportable conclusion reached today by an FCC majority that broadband deployment in the US is not reasonable and timely.
Judge for yourself. A quick glance at the statistics shows exactly how broadband is unquestionably being deployed to Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.
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