<div>The Benton Institute has a detailed review of the FCC\u2019s 2025 Performance Review, which may be helpful to document broadband deployment failures. The conclusion says it all:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:inherit"><p style="margin:0px 0px 27px;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto">\u201cAt 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\u2014rules deleted, proceedings launched and completed, applications processed\u2014but 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\u2014the Universal Service Fund\u2014and says nothing about the nearly two million households whose promised broadband service is now at risk due to RDOF [Rural Digital Opportunity Fund] defaults.\u201d </p></div><div dir="auto"><div style="font-size:inherit"><a href="https://www.benton.org/blog/agendas-goals-and-performance-what-fcc-says-it-did-broadband-deployment-fy2025-and-what-it-left" style="font-size:inherit" target="_blank">https://www.benton.org/blog/agendas-goals-and-performance-what-fcc-says-it-did-broadband-deployment-fy2025-and-what-it-left</a></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Carl</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Carl Atkins</div><div dir="auto">Member, Steering Group </div><div dir="auto">Digital Equity Coalition of the Capital Region </div><div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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