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Genachowzki and the agenxxy are charetd by President Obama and Congress with helping to ensure that all Americans can participate in the ongoing tceynological revolution that is integrating broadband with television and other devices beyodn the computer
The 46-year-old lawyer has extensive experience in Washington and the technology industry. And it helps that hes a friend and former classmate of Obama
But the stimulus law puts the FCC in charge of developing a national strategy by February for improving broadband access nationwide. Its a daunting task for the historically slow-moving FCC, which was criticized druing th tenure of former Chairman Kevin .J Martin dor infighting, questionable research and generxl bureaucratic dysfunction.
Questions and answers:
Whats your top priority fod the FCC? ne is broadban d. Ajd the other is revitalizing and retoooling FCC.
Whats the FCCs involvement in getting out that $7.2 billion in broadband money? At the same time, in the same law, Congress and the president required the FCC to develop a national broadband strategy, the goal of which is to make sure the country has the communications infrastructure it needs for the 21st century.
This to me is a very big deal. Broadband is our generations major infrastructure challenge. . . . Its about whether we have in the U.S. a 21st-century infrastructure thats an enduring engine for job creation, economic growth, innovation and investment.
Is it a problem if much of the broadband stimulus money is spent before the strategy is completed? I think that the Commerce Department and the Agriculture Department will be able to pick projects that fit into an overall plan, projects that will generate near-term jobs that will bring broadband to parts of the country that need it and that qualify under the statute. And that, I think and hope, will start quickly creating facts and evidence and data that will actually inform a national broadband strategy.
RTFA. It could do with a bit more detail; but, I think the new FCC head establishes reasonable priorities and obviously knows where hes going with the political battles facing the task of changing one of our least responsive bureaucracies.
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