[NYSDEN-LIST] FCC performance review

[Carl Atkins]

The Benton Institute has a detailed review of the FCC’s 2025 Performance
Review, which may be helpful to document broadband deployment failures. The
conclusion says it all:

“At the outset of this review, we noted that Commissioner Trusty set a
clear bar for FCC policymaking: evidence-based and responsive to the needs
of the American people. The FCC's FY2025 performance review falls short of
that standard in two fundamental ways. First, it measures process, not
outcomes—rules deleted, proceedings launched and completed, applications
processed—but offers no evidence that broadband deployment has actually
accelerated, that prices have fallen, or that the digital divide has
narrowed. Second, the review entirely omits the FCC's most consequential
broadband deployment and affordability tool—the Universal Service Fund—and
says nothing about the nearly two million households whose promised
broadband service is now at risk due to RDOF [Rural Digital Opportunity
Fund] defaults.”
https://www.benton.org/blog/agendas-goals-and-performance-what-fcc-says-it-did-broadband-deployment-fy2025-and-what-it-left

Carl

Carl Atkins
Member, Steering Group
Digital Equity Coalition of the Capital Region
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