Free Press continued to push for the FCC...
Free Press continued to push for the FCC to collect broadband pricing data as it takes over National Broadband Map duties from NTIA. In a meeting Wednesday, Free Press told an aide to Commissioner Ajit Pai that the commission must…
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“collect and disseminate better data to facilitate competition analysis.” The commission “can and must” collect pricing data, “even if it begins to do so on a less granular basis using an approach similar to the Media Bureau’s annual pricing survey in the multichannel video market,” said the nonprofit in a filing posted Monday to docket 10-131 (http://bit.ly/12lyQB0). The commission should also take “definitive” steps to make Form 477 data available to researchers, and increase the granularity of its reporting for deployment and subscription data, it said. The commission is scheduled to vote Thursday on a report and order designed to improve and streamline the collection of broadband data.