What the National Broadband

Plan Does for National

Priorities
Presentation to Federal Communications Bar
Association Broadband Committee

Phoebe Yang, Kerry McDermott, Ellen Satterwhite,

Claude Aiken, Nick Sinai, Tom Brown, Kris Monteith

November 9, 2010
Congress asked the FCC for a plan for using broadband
to better realize our national purposes
Area of focus for
American Recovery and today’s conversation
Reinvestment Act, §6001(k)(2)
(D):
Healthcare
“a plan for use of broadband
infrastructure and services in:
- advancing consumer welfare
- civic participation Education
- public safety and homeland
security
- community development Energy and
- health care delivery the environment
- energy independence and
efficiency Government performance
- education and civic engagement
- worker training
- private sector investment
Economic opportunity
- entrepreneurial activity
- job creation and economic
growth Public safety and
- and other national homeland security
purposes.”
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Framework for national purposes

Increase Broadband Unleash Data for Increase Adoption

Connectivity Consumer Applications and Utilization

• Expand rural health • Expand use of • Create national

care program electronic health and learning registry
education records
• Modernize and • Promote innovation in
streamline E-Rate • Provide consumers wireless medical devices
with access to their
• Free up more • Create small business
digital energy
spectrum for mobile broadband tools and
information
broadband, which can be training
used to support national • Make all data that the
purposes government treats as
public available online

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As a platform for innovation and information exchange,
broadband can help improve health outcomes

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Health Care

What’s Been Done What’s In Store

• Proposed rules to reform Rural • Rural Health Care Program Order

Health Care Program in July
• Creating permanent Broadband
• Launched unprecedented Infrastructure Fund
partnership with FDA to streamline
• Creating new Broadband
approval process for wireless medical
Services Fund
devices in July
• Increasing eligible providers
• Signed joint statement and
Memorandum of Understanding • Exploring wireless test beds
between FCC and FDA
• Continuing advisory role
• Issued experimental waiver for
wireless health care network • Continuing coordination across
government
• Advised White House HIT Task
Force
• Aligned efforts with HHS, VA, NIH

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As a platform for information exchange, broadband can
help personalize instruction so students learn more

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Education

What’s Been Done What’s In Store

• E-Rate FY2011 Broadband Order in • Launch of wireless pilot program

September
• National Education Technology Plan
• Addresses every NBP
• Creation of the National Learning
recommendation to FCC re: E-Rate
Registry
that does not require Congress
• Coordination on development of
• Streamlines application process
Virtual Learning Platform with
• Provides greater flexibility Department of Energy
• Indexes cap to inflation
• Allows off-hours community use
• Introduces wireless pilot
• Department of Ed, Smithsonian and
FCC launched effort to create National
Learning Registry in July
• IMLS launches effort to develop
guidelines for digitally literate
communities
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As a platform for innovation, broadband can help
consumers understand and manage their energy use

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Energy & the Environment

What’s Been Done What’s In Store

• Launched Survivability NOI in April • Reliability NOI

• Held first-ever FCC Clean • Closer coordination with energy-
Technology Showcase in May focused government agencies like
FERC, Department of Energy and EPA
• Department of Energy released two
NBP-recommended reports on Smart • Greening the FCC
Grid and consumer access to energy
• Efforts to highlight sustainable
data in October
industry best practices
• California has launched efforts
aimed at giving consumers access to
their energy data and promoting
smart meter privacy
• Freed up white spaces between
television channels for unlicensed use,
benefitting the Smart Grid

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Implementation

Lots of organizations working . . . And tools to track

together . . . progress

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