FCCsSixthAnnualBroadbandReport.doc

Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of Inquiry Concerning the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a Reasonable and Timely Fashion, and Possible Steps to Accelerate Such Deployment Pursuant to Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as Amended by the Broadband Data Improvement Act A National Broadband Plan for Our Future ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) GN Docket No. 09-137 GN Docket No. 09-51 SIXTH broadband deployment REPORT Adopted: July 16, 2010 Released: July 20, 2010 By the Commission: Chairman Genachowski and Commissioners Copps and Clyburn issuing separate statements; Commissioners McDowell and Baker dissenting and issuing separate statements. Table of Contents Para. I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. background 8 III. status of broadband deployment 9 A. Benchmarking Broadband 9 B. Evidence of Broadband Availability 16 1. Model 18 2. Subscribership Data 19 a. Unserved Areas 20 b. Subscription Rates Are Lower in Native Homeland Areas 25 3. Consumer Survey 26 4. International Report 27 IV. Broadband is not Being Deployed to All Americans in a Reasonable and Timely fashion 28 V. immediate action to accelerate deployment 29 VI. ordering clauses 30 APPENDIX A – Commenters APPENDIX B – Unserved Areas by State or U.S. Territory APPENDIX C – Unserved Areas by County or County Equivalent APPENDIX D – Commission’s Report on High-Speed Services for Internet Access: Status as of December 31, 2008 INTRODUCTION This is the Commission’s Sixth Report issued under section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended, which requires the Commission to determine annually whether broadband is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion. Our analysis of broadband subscribership data and the broadband availability model constructed for the National Broadband Plan indicates that while a substantial majority of Americans have access to broadband