Agency Summary
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Weekly Progress
Source: Agency Financial and Activity Report
as of 2009-04-30
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Financial and Activity Report
Financial Status: |
- Total Available: $4,279,767
- Total Paid Out: $0
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Major Actions Taken to Date: |
- DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSITION
- Awarded a contract for call center services in anticipation of June 12 transition date
- Awarded four regional contracts to HUBZone vendors for basic, in-home digital-to-analog converter box installation services to provide additional assistance to households throughout the Nation to ensure a successful digital television transition on June 12, 2009
- Received a transfer of $65.705 million in Recovery Act funds from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) as authorized by the Recovery Act to allow the FCC to continue to carry out its responsibilities to educate analog television viewers about the digital television transition
- Issued a request for quotation seeking proposals to supplement and expand the FCC's consumer education and awareness campaign relating to the digital television transition by providing advertising and public relations expertise, a variety of media services, publications, and targeted distribution services
- Issued six requests for quotations seeking proposals to provide digital television walk-in centers or mobile clinics that allow consumers to participate in hands on demonstrations, read fact sheets and other printed materials, and watch how-to videos
- Issued six requests for quotations seeking proposals for expert, complex in-home digital transition services to provide additional assistance to households with potentially complex installations throughout the Nation to ensure a successful digital television transition on June 12, 2009
- Issued six requests for quotations seeking proposals for basic, in-home digital-to-analog converter box installation services to provide additional assistance to households throughout the Nation to ensure a successful digital television transition on June 12, 2009
- Issued a request for quotation to ensure that call center services to support the FCC's DTV hotline are in place to meet the call demands surrounding the new digital television transition date of June 12, 2009
- BROADBAND
- On April 8, at a public meeting, the FCC adopted a far-reaching Notice of Inquiry that begins an open, participatory, public process to marshal the data and expertise needed to develop a national broadband strategy within one year
- Testified at an oversight hearing concerning the broadband provisions of the Recovery Act before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet
- Established procedures for parties wishing to provide written or oral comments on the FCC's consultative role to the NTIA to meet the broadband provisions of the Recovery Act and so the FCC may meet the accountability provisions surrounding the Act's implementation
- Participated in a series of public meetings in Washington, DC, Arizona, and Nevada being held by the NTIA and Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service to receive expert advice and public input on the broadband initiatives in the Recovery Act
- On March 10, participated in a public forum with NTIA and the Department of Agriculture on broadband initiatives funded by the Recovery Act and announced future upcoming opportunities for public input on development of a National Broadband Plan
- Requested comments from the public on how the FCC should implement its responsibilities for collecting international broadband data and surveying consumers on broadband service capability
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Major Planned Actions: |
- DIGITAL TELEVISION TRANSITION
- Moving forward with planning for evaluating proposals and awarding contracts pursuant to FCC's remaining outstanding requests for quotations for digital television transition related services
- Preparing to transmit agency-wide and program specific plan to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review in accordance with OMB guidance
- BROADBAND
- Continue to work with NTIA and Department of Agriculture to move Recovery Act programs forward
- Evaluate public input in response to the FCC's Notice of Inquiry on developing a national broadband strategy
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