FCC Wants More Time To Craft Broadband Plan

adeelarshad82 writes "Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission Chairman, has sent out a letter to Congress requesting more time for the commission to deliver its national broadband plan. According to the stimulus bill passed in early 2009, the FCC was to come up with a plan to provide all citizens with access to broadband services and deliver it to the committee by February 17, 2010. Even though an outline of the plan was released last month, FCC is requesting till March 17, 2010 to finalize the plan."

Comments

Why wait, we already know the answer

[NaCh0]

It will be just like telephone and now health care. The people who want the service enough to buy it will be taxed to provide the service for people who don't care enough to buy it on their own.

Re:What can they actually do?

[jimmy_dean]

You are living in the clouds. Since when is anything that the government controls ever actually cheap. There might be the allusion that something is cheap, but no, that just means something is subsidized by taxpayer money and then labeled as "low-cost" or "free". Clearly nothing paid for by taxpayer money is either of these things and it only serves to hide the true and important price information necessary to truly drive down costs.