The FCC under chair Jessica Rosenworcel has signaled it wants the Biden administration’s universal service benchmarks of “affordability, adoption, availability and equitable access” to be part of its equation when calculating if advanced telecommunications are being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.
“In light of the increasing uses and demands for broadband and the Congressional directives embodied in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which includes the largest ever federal investment in broadband deployment, this Notice of Inquiry (NOI) will take a fresh look at the Commission’s standards for evaluating broadband deployment and availability, the quality of the Commission’s available data, and the framework that the agency uses to make a finding under section 706,” the Federal Communications Commission said.
