On April 16, the FCC announced two proceedings focused on evaluating broadband deployment:

• The first is a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into whether broadband services are being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.
• The second is a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) exploring ways to collect information the Commission needs to set broadband policy in the future.

Although people have questioned the FCC’s results in the past, this report proposes to take a look at how to define broadband, which I think/hope should help further fuel that discussion in other places as well.

Right now they are seeking comment on whether to modify collection of speed tier information and how to improve the data collected about wireless broadband Internet access service.