Submit your comments here

The Federal Communications Commission wants to hear your views, concerns and suggestions regarding current and future national telecom policy. As a member organization of the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee, the TeleCommunity Resource Center invites you to send us your comments, which we will collect, summarize, and submit to the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee, Chairman, and Commission officials. Your comments will also be maintained online for interested people, including government policymakers..

Context: Community leaders and Internet advocates report their increasing concerns that national telecommunications policy is not currently meeting its goal of enabling information technology opportunities for all Americans. Advanced telecommunications services and affordable broadband Internet access remain unavailable in vast areas of the United States. Many experts feel competitive access choices are in fact steadily diminishing. Broadband telecom services are not currently available to customers in many rural and less affluent urban communities.

Some local leaders fear that government telecom policies are disproportionately influenced by the opinions representing telecom industry corporations. Yet any agency, including the FCC, must rely on the best information available when making policy decisions. To address the concerns of communities and consumers, FCC commissioners must first learn of them.
 
The TeleCommunity Resource Center has been appointed as a member organization of the Consumer Advisory Committee. Our delegate, TCRC Executive Director Gene Crick, is also Chairman of their Working Group on Rural (and underserved urban) Broadband Access. We urge you to share your views on today’s telecom issues, particularly those affected by policy decisions of the FCC. This input will be provided by TCRC to the FCC Advisory Committee, Chairman and other officials. Comments will also be maintained online by TCRC, available to all interested parties.

This public comments website is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest effort to solicit input from all people interested in telecommunications. Their comments will help provide the FCC with the widest possible input from all segments of the American public.

We invite all organizations and individuals to assist in this effort. Several groups are already participating; we hope more will join.

Thank you,
Gene Crick, Director
TeleCommunity Resource Center

 
Submit Comments

To submit your own comments simply click here.

Notes:
The content of this website offers views and suggestions from a wide variety of people, collected for review by the FCC. The core comments are brief summaries; links are provided in cases where more detail has been offered by those submitting comments. Feel free to include supplemental documents or URL links to other relevant comments.  Directions for submitting your own input are provided below. All comments must include your name and valid email address (address will not be posted). You may request name not be posted online – those comments will show only initials, city and/or organization.

Diverse opinion is welcome; fairness and accuracy are requested; civil discourse is expected.  Submissions accepted with the understanding they may be used in any manner by TCRC and the FCC.  Though comments on legislative and other telecom issues are accepted, remember that the FCC is primarily interested in matters within their regulatory purview.  Comments should be relevant and reflect standards of constructive civil discourse.  TCRC reserves right to edit and/or reject any comments submitted at any time.  Submitters may request their comments be removed from TCRC public website by emailing mike@tcrc.net

Our thanks to project partners including the Association for Community Networking, the Rural TeleCongress, Consumers Union, and many others.



To View Public Comments on Telecom Policy, offered for consideration by the FCC click here.

 

Copyright © 1997-2001 TeleCommunity Resource Center.
This project is made possible through the cooperation of Metropolitan Austin Interactive Network and the contributions of Broadwing Communications, Microsoft Corporation and Digital Voodoo, Inc..
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED