A Silver Lining?
Steve Goodman has been practicing telecommunications law since 1983, when he began working at the Federal Communications Commission. He now represents a wide variety of clients, including telecommunications equipment manufacturers, satellite service providers and international carriers.
I recently had the opportunity to organize and moderate a panel discussion on the tenth anniversary of the release of the FCC's National Broadband Plan. For those unfamiliar with the National Broadband Plan, it was an extensive effort by the FCC to respond to a Congressional directive to develop a detailed strategy for spurring broadband deployment and adoption.
The FCC was also tasked in developing the plan with understanding how broadband affects a wide swath of the American economy and government, including civic participation, public safety, health care delivery, energy independence and efficiency, education, employee training, entrepreneurial activity, job creation, and economic growth.