FCC CAN RERUN SOME DTV EDUCATION METHODS IN BROADBAND OUTREACH

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The FCC should get comments for the national broadband plan from those who don't usually deal with the commission by reaching out in ways like those used for DTV education, said commissioners and members of the committee advising the FCC on broadband. Commissioners' visits to senior centers, libraries and other gatherings to spread the word about DTV before the June 12 transition and FCC work with community groups and other not-for- profits on full-power broadcasters' analog shutoff hold lessons for developing the broadband plan due in February, they said. In seeking to get people without Internet service to increase their use of the Web, the commission is trying to reach many of the same people considered at risk in the analog cutoff, some said. "The commission's DTV outreach was a tremendous success and created a lot of institutional skills in explaining complex problems to the public," said Blair Levin, executive director of the FCC Omnibus Broadband Initiative. "The OBI effort has already benefited from those skills and will continue to do so as we accelerate our efforts in the fall."