What Are the Goals of the FCC?
The following are FCC goals affecting the communications and media industry: • Promoting Competition – Support the Nation’s economy by ensuring that there is a comprehensive and sound competitive framework for communications services. Such a framework should foster innovation and offer consumers meaningful choice in services. Such a pro-competitive framework should be promoted domestically and overseas. • Broadband – Establish regulatory policies that promote competition, innovation, and investment in broadband services and facilities while monitoring progress toward the deployment of broadband services in the United States and abroad. • Media – Revise media regulations so that media ownership rules promote competition and diversity in a comprehensive, legally sustainable manner and facilitate the mandated migration to digital modes of delivery. • Homeland Security – Provide leadership in evaluating and strengthening the Nation’s communications infrastructure, in ensuring rapid restora
