FCC Asks for Broadband Plan Extension

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The Federal Communications Commission wants more time to work on its national broadband plan. In a letter to Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), Chairman of the Comittee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski asked that the deadline for the plan be moved from Feb. 17 to March 17.

“The Commission makes this request in the interest of advancing a national broadband plan that reflects the extraordinary importance of the task and that is responsive to the unprecedented record developed during the comment and workshop period,” Genachowski wrote.

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