National Broadband Plan

Broadband serves as a critical foundation for leveraging economic growth, improving education and health care, addressing energy and environmental challenges, promoting civic engagement, and expanding public safety responsiveness. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), recognizing the importance of broadband, has recently developed the National Broadband Plan to expand broadband services across America. The National Broadband Plan provides a strategy for improving connectedness across the nation that will promote economic development; enhance education, health, and public safety services; and improve responsiveness to energy, environmental, and civic engagement challenges. The Plan seeks to improve the accessibility of high speed services to those with the most need. The Plan sets a strategy that will enable more Americans to be connected at affordable prices and at high speeds. In developing this plan, the FCC recognizes that broadband can be the key to opening economic opportunities, improving health and education opportunities, expanding public safety responsiveness, addressing energy and environmental challenges, and promoting civic engagement for those with the most critical need. As such, the Plan will evolve with technological innovation, reflect new connectivity opportunities, and adjust to developing markets.