Wheeler Implementing GAO Recommendations on Consumer Notice, He Tells Johnson
The FCC is working to implement the recommendations of a May GAO report on how the agency communicates with consumers, Chairman Tom Wheeler told Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in a July 15 letter released Friday. The…
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FCC’s report and order on net neutrality from March “commissioned a Federal Advisory Committee, the Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC), to devise a format by which broadband Internet access providers can provide consumers with broadband performance information,” Wheeler said. “The FCC directed the CAC to propose a format so that consumers can make informed choices regarding the purchase of broadband services.” That committee has to submit its proposal by Oct. 31, Wheeler said. The agency is also assessing its Measuring Broadband America effort and “will work with the CAC to better determine the broadband performance information needed by consumers” and incorporate it into that, Wheeler said.