Groups Urge Delay on Broadband Label Comment Deadlines
Public interest and consumer groups asked the FCC to extend by 60 days the deadlines for filing comments in the broadband label proceeding. “The current 30-day deadline for comments, on Jan. 17, falls squarely within a busy period for the…
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broadband data community,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 22-2: “The Commission has already set a Jan. 13 deadline for challenges to the broadband availability maps, and the Federal Trade Commission has a Jan. 9 deadline for comments on its ‘junk fees’ proceeding, which includes questions that implicate the broadband consumer label. These proceedings, coupled with the winter holidays, leave insufficient time to submit substantive comments in the above-captioned proceeding by Jan. 17.” Among the groups supporting the delay were Free Press, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, the Center for Democracy & Technology, Consumer Reports, the Greenlining Institute, the National Consumer Law Center, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Next Century Cities and Public Knowledge.