YouTube Interview with FCC Chairman Genachowski

Just after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered his agency's National Broadband Plan to the public, we sat down with him for an exclusive YouTube Interview, in which he answered questions submitted and voted on by people on Citizentube.

Listen to the Chairman answer your questions, including a couple of rounds of "F-C-Caesar" in which he gives simple thumbs up/thumbs down answers to your questions.

And you can find out more about the National Broadband Plan here:

http://broadband.gov/

On Twitter, follow @citizentube, @FCC, @grove

Here are the questions we asked:

Chairman Genachowski, how will you increase broadband competition to provide faster Internet access for Americans at lower prices?
-Elizabeth Stark, New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Omot3AaN4

Let's go ahead and assume that the fiber has been laid. How does the FCC view broadband from a regulatory point of view? Does the FCC look at broadband as a commercial service, or a critical infrastructure?
-Michael Tapp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjPgvwGmFlM

Mr. Chairman, you've mentioned that the Broadband Plan will offer spectrum and subsidies to big mobile broadband providers. Will the plan help WISPs, and hence consumers, by helping us to obtain reasonably priced spectrum and bandwidth?
- Brent Glass, Laramie Wyoming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IFhsowA08

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F-C-Caesar Round 1:

Will you commit to personally meeting with 'grassroots groups' (outside beltway) in the cities that you travel to, especially before moving ahead on important topics like net neutrality, media ownership, and wireless competition?
- Media Action Grassroots Network, Oakland, CA

Can the Internet continue to effectively scale without a major technology upgrade?
- pkeys, Milpitas, CA

Does the FCC believe that every Internet line should be of high enough quality to start a business? If so, will it set minimum quality rules?
-Yonran, San Francisco, CA

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Would your proposed network neutrality rules help or hinder efforts to close the digital divide, increase deployment of broadband to minorities and un-served or underserved communities, and increase broadband adoption by minorities?
- Navarrow, Mount laurel New jersey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOimuHnhGQ0

Mr.Chairman: We know that broadband access is critical to success for individuals, communities and society. Please tell us what you're going to do to improve broadband access for the fastest growing group in America, Latinos.
- Max Benavidez, Los Angeles, California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4FTFXhY6zs

What about the most rural towns? We have no broadband and no mobile phone access. Our businesses and children are leaving.
- Evslin, Vermont

What will the FCC do to help kids like us and all over the United States get access to the internet?
-Trinity School, Menlo Park, CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJHOjckvQ_g

Do you believe that the phone companies should have more influence over the FCC than the nearly two million Americans who have declared their support for strong Net Neutrality protections?
-Deborah Brown, Boulder, CO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiSKaOI5KA

Lobbyists say that Net Neutrality will kill investment in broadband build out, but haven't produced evidence to support this claim. Do you think we need to sacrifice the Internet's openness in order to connect people who don't now have broadband?
-PhilDampier, Rochester, NY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26IysfnCJ8Q

What is the FCC doing to ensure competition amongst cellphone providers and to ensure that consumers are allowed to use their devices however they want and with whichever provider they want so long as it's not detrimental to the network?"
- Kevin, Baltimore, MD

As someone whos working to expand broadband to more Americans and appreciates the FCCs hard work on the National Broadband Plan --- Im interested to learn what the Plan does to help with roadblocks to broadband expansion.
- Paul Schieber, Overland Park, Kansas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Omot3AaN4

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F-C-Caesar Round 2:

At times, some members of Congress seem uninformed about new technologies. Are more tech savvy people needed in positions within the FCC to prevent our elected representatives from believing, for example, that the Internet is a "series of tubes"?
- Jay, Atlanta

Will there be subsidized broadband rates for students?
- Adam, Washington D.C.

Will the average consumer have access to a T1 speed connection by 2011?
- HeadStudiosInc, centralNewYork

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What are you most excited about in this plan, and how would you like people to remember it decades from now?
- Ernie, Rural Virginia

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[shellgamer]

Where on earth did the improbable clique of self-important, smug wankers who appear on this video get the crazy notion that they represent or speak for the mainstream? Thanks guys. Bite this!

[alifaqmal]

interesting discussion



[ForexReviewsCentral]

nothing great..

[JohnJohnsJohns]

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[gonadcancervictim]

I think the fcc should have more power over the internet cause I work at the fcc and lust for power and control over other individuals.

[eathenicus]

Those statistics are shockingly surprising. I guess people are still using dial-up.

[alen209]

The day Government has control of the internet will be the day George Orwell books ( 1984 ) will not be allowed to read.

[HoneySiegalSurvivor]

How in the world did the FCC get bought off since the mid eighties by the Rupert Murdoch impostor?

Is there no decency left in society that an honest 56 year old woman who is telling the truth about the Obama corruption linked to his election by the media lies of computer fraud in conjunction with the FCC persists?

Where in the world are the prosecutors to stop the crooks in the SEC and FCC causing the demise of the United States. Obama crooked attorney purposely bankrupting US in partnership

[Hotshot354]

@MoneyIsSilver That is a ridiculous claim. The whole issue of net neutrality is that of ISPs slowing access to certain sites; the FCC has litigated to protect a users unrestricted access to any site they desire. if anything, the government is loosening the control of the internet held be ISPs and in no way increasing their control. Incidentally your obscene comment is unappreciated because it is entirely infantile.

[Hotshot354]

@billeybop nowhere in the video was it even suggested that the FCC will take over any aspect of broadband communication or any other industry. Where are you seeing this supposed "end of freedom." I challenge you provide logical grounds for your accusation based on this video.