August 20.2009

Room TW-C305 (Commission Meeting Room), Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW
Washington, D.C.
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The goal of the workshops will be to promote an open dialogue between the FCC and key constituents on matters important to the National Broadband Plan. Key constituents will include service providers, equipment providers, applications providers, community groups, and other groups that have a stake in the future of broadband. Workshops will consist of meetings held at the FCC. The public will have the opportunity to suggest meeting topics and questions for the workshops. All meetings will be broadcast over the Internet when possible, and archived for viewing at a later time to ensure that everyone has access to the content.

The goal of this workshop is to consider ways in which broadband can improve consumer welfare and what are the barriers to consumers enjoying those benefits. The workshop will look at ways in which consumers use the internet today and how they are likely to do so in the future, and consider whether that use can be expanded through policies that improve the consumer experience. The workshop will also look at the way consumers buy broadband and whether there are any policies that would help increase adoption, utilization or in other ways address the Congressional goals for the national broadband plan.