The FCC's New Strategic Plan

The FCC just released a Strategic Plan for 2018 with these primary goals:

• Closing the Digital Divide - High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is critical to economic opportunity. But there are too many parts of the country where broadband is unavailable or unaffordable. The FCC has tools it can use to help close this digital divide, bring down the cost of deploying broadband, and create incentives for providers to connect consumers in hard-to- serve areas.
  
  
• Promoting Innovation - A key priority for the FCC is to foster a competitive, dynamic, and innovative market for communications services through polices that promote the introduction of new technologies and services. We will ensure that the FCC’s actions and regulations reflect the realities of the current marketplace, promote entrepreneurship, expand economic opportunity, and remove barriers to entry and investment.
  
  
• Protecting Consumers & Public Safety - The FCC’s core mission has always been to serve the broader public interest, and that means protecting consumers and keeping the public safe. We will work to combat unwanted and unlawful robocalls, which intrude into consumers’ lives, and to make communications accessible for people with disabilities. We will also protect public safety, and in particular, take steps to assist and safeguard the communications of our nation’s law enforcement officers and first responders.
  
  
• Reforming the FCC’s Processes - As Chairman, I have made it a priority to implement process reforms to make the work of the FCC more transparent, open, and accountable to the American people. We will modernize and streamline the FCC’s operations and programs to improve decision-making, build consensus, reduce regulatory burdens, and simplify the public’s interactions with the Commission.

Of course, we'll be keeping tabs on how well the FCC does in accomplishing its objectives in the months ahead.