The Plan’s call for action over the next decade includes the following goals and
recommendations:
· Connect 100 million households to affordable 100-megabits-per-second service, building the world’s largest market of high-speed broadband users and ensuring that new jobs and businesses are created in America.
· Affordable access in every American community to ultra-high-speed broadband of at
least 1 gigabit per second at anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals, and military installations so that America is hosting the experiments that produce tomorrow’s ideas and industries.
· Ensure that the United States is leading the world in mobile innovation by making 500 megahertz of spectrum newly available for licensed and unlicensed use.
· Move our adoption rates from roughly 65 percent to more than 90 percent and make sure that every child in America is digitally literate by the time he or she leaves high school.
· Bring affordable broadband to rural communities, schools, libraries, and vulnerable
populations by transitioning existing Universal Service Fund support from yesterday’s
analog technologies to tomorrow’s digital infrastructure.
· Promote competition across the broadband ecosystem by ensuring greater transparency, removing barriers to entry, and conducting market-based analysis with quality data on price, speed, and availability.
· Enhance the safety of the American people by providing every first responder with access to a nationwide, wireless, interoperable public safety network.
