The FCC's strategic goal for Broadband is to establish regulatory
policies that promote competition, innovation, and investment in broadband
services and facilities while monitoring progress toward the deployment of
broadband services in the United States and abroad.
Broadband technologies, which encompass all evolving high-speed digital
technologies that provide consumers integrated access to voice, high-speed
data, video-on-demand, and interactive delivery services, are a
fundamental component of the communications revolution. Fully-evolved
broadband will:
All will benefit as broadband’s technologies are developed and
deployed. Nonetheless:
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Promote the availability of broadband to all Americans.
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Conceptualize broadband in a way that includes any platform capable
of providing high-bandwidth intensive content.
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Clarify and stabilize the regulatory treatment of broadband
services.
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Encourage and facilitate an environment that stimulates investment
and innovation in broadband technology and services.
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Harmonize regulation of competing broadband services that are
provided via different technologies and network architectures.
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Dutifully enforce market-opening requirements.
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Monitor social and economic developments in order to provide ongoing
national and international policy leadership and consumer education in
the emerging broadband arena.