""" Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended (1996 Act), requires the Commission to determine and report annually on "whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion". 1) This Notice of Inquiry (Inquiry) initiates the Commission’s assessment of the availability of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans (including, in particular, elementary and secondary schools and classrooms). 2) In conducting this Inquiry, the Commission must “determine whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion and, if the answer is negative, the Commission "shall take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability" through a variety of means. 3) In this Inquiry, we solicit data and information that will help the Commission make this determination. """ The PDF versions are at: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A1.pdf https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A2.pdf https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A3.pdf https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-113A4.pdf Unless I'm badly misreading this, in particular, if you have a problem with the FCC's broadband penetration numbers being predicated on "this zip has broadband because *these six houses on the north edge of town have DSL*, then this is where your comments on that will get ignored. (Their current cutoff, for those who did not know, is 4/1, so DSL actually *does not qualify as broadband* for Section 706 purposes.) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274