January 13, 2017
To make sure that the Federal government does everything within its power to support broadband deployment and adoption, on March 23, 2015, The President signed a Presidential Memorandum "Expanding Broadband Deployment and Adoption by Addressing Regulatory Barriers and Encouraging Investment and Training." The Memorandum created the Broadband Opportunity Council and tasked it to produce specific recommendations to increase broadband deployment, competition and adoption through executive actions within the scope of existing Agency programs, missions and budgets. This Report describes progress on that directive.