The American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 authorized the Federal Communications Commission to
create the national Broadband Plan that seeks to ensure that all
people of the United States have access to broadband capability and
shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. Consistent with
this effort, and pursuant to the requirements under the Broadband
Data Improvement Act of 2008, the FCC seeks to conduct surveys of
residential consumers of broadband Internet to determine the state
of brodband Internet access, use, service speed and price in order
to make recommendations to congress as part of the National
Broadband Plan. The plan is due to congress by February 17,
2010.
In order to meet the
congressional deadline of February 17, 2010, the FCC must prepare a
national broadband plan to collect information on the types of
technology used to provide broadband to consumers, the price of
such services, actual data transmission speeds and the reasons for
non-adoption of broadband services. Because of the short time
period in which the Commission must gather the data and prepare a
plan to congress, the Commission must request emergency processing
to meet this congressional deadline.
PL: Pub.L. 110 - 385 103 Name of Law:
Broadband Data Improvement Act of 2008
PL: Pub.L. 111 - 5 123 Name of Law: American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009
The Commission is submitting a
non material change to the supporting statement, Part A, because
the Commission wishes to contact non-adopters of broadband service.
The FCC plans to conduct workshops and conduct face-to-face
interviews with 100 additional respondents to find out why they
chose not to adopt a broadband service. The findings will be
incorporated into part of a national broadband plan that must be be
submitted to congress by February 17, 2010.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
NEW_BB_ ConsumerSurvey_partA_ss_102809.doc
20091007104637.pdf
National Broadband Plan Survey of Consumers