FCC: The Broadband Availability Gap

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act directed the Federal Communications Commission to include, as part of the National Broadband Plan, “an analysis of the most effective and efficient mechanisms for ensuring broadband access by all people of the United States.” As the NBP indicated the level of additional funding to extend broadband to those who do not have access today is $23.5 billion; more detail about theĀ gap and results of this analysis are presented in Chapter 2. This document details the underlying analyses, assumptions and calculations that support the $23.5 billion funding gap.

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