LEVIN CREDITS HIS PRODDING WITH IMPROVING BROADBAND-PLAN SUGGESTIONS

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Blair Levin, the executive director of the FCC 抯 broadband plan work, said companies took tonheart his complaints about filings in preparation for the report. "We had just gotten in all thenfilings in response to the first notice of inquiry and my response ... was it was incrediblyndepressing,?he said at a conference. 揂ll of the filings, almost without exception ... were verynself-serving. They were not thoughtful. They were not analytic. They were nothing more thannbumper stickers and kind of laundry lists." Since Levin spoke out, he said, 揥e have receivedna lot of public comment that was very thoughtful and very much helped shape our thinking." Hensaid public comments had prompted commission decisions on the disclosure of broadbandspeedninformation and the protection of personal information.