DIRECTOR OF BROADBAND PLAN WORK EXPRESSES SATISFACTION

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People seem to "get" that the National Broadband Plan is a "call to action," Blair Levin, the executive director of thenFCC work, said at a Brookings Institution event. His staff set out to write a document that would be both "visionary andnpractical" and would offer "the kind of advice companies would get if they had millions of dollars on the line," he said.nLevin believes the FCC achieved that. Everyone who has reacted to the plan likes "large pieces" of it, he said. Levinnsaid he had hoped that people would love 80 percent, be indifferent to 10 percent and hate 10 percent. Not much hasnbeen said about the national purposes section of the report, he said, but Levin expects it to have had the most effect inn10 years. Quick action is most likely on the recommendation for commission action, he said. "On the key issuesnaffecting the FCC??the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation -- 搕here was a fair amount ofnacceptance of the need to go forward and that there is a framework now to go forward.?