National Broadband Plan – some key concepts: more unlicensed spectrum, 100 Squared, Digital Literacy Corps #fcc #NBP 

A NY Times story today about the forthcoming National Broadband Plan introduces some of the key concepts therein:

‘More unlicensed spectrum’
The plan will advise that some of more spectrum become unlicensed, so it can serve as a test bed for new technologies.
‘100 Squared’
The plan will include an initiative the chairman calls 100 Squared — equipping 100 million households with high-speed Internet gushing through their pipes at 100 megabits a second by the end of this decade. .
‘Digital Literacy Corps’
The plan will call for a “digital literacy corps” to help unwired Americans learn online skills