FCC SEEKING DATA FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES FOR NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN

摘要

The FCC is asking other countries to contribute information for its national broadband plan. The International Bureau sent letters this month to Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa and South Korea. "We hope to learn from the experiences of others in meeting the shared challenge of delivering broadband to all of our citizens," the bureau wrote. "While some national level data is available through institutions like the Organisation [for] Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), we are interested in obtaining broadband data at more granular levels -- for example, by city, county, state, province or prefecture. Similarly, we are interested in demographic and socioeconomic data at comparable unit levels." The commission is required by the Broadband Data Improvement Act to do an international comparison of broadband speeds and prices.