FCC Broadband Initiative Tackles School Needs from edweek.org There are many US companies that are interested to increase the internet capacity of the broadband business. Microsoft, Discovery Channel, and Best Buy are bringing strong experiments to this effect. Some companies are opposed to the usage of $2.3 B budget from the Federal Communications Commission to give fund to this project. Universal Service Fund is one of the examples to be used for this project. The group is trying their best to close the digital gap and help school / libraries to be the source of the promoting the public to use internet in the United States. Best Buy from Minnesota will share their 20,000 Greek Square Technology to 20 different cities to test the project. The National Standard for Digital Literacy will be the training ground for this testing. Microsoft has not just been looking at this philanthropic excellence but thinking it as an earning in market share. There are about 100 million people that haven’t adapted the broadband, and there will be the ground market can come from. Questions: 1. What judgment would Federal Communications Commission make to allow private businesses to use the $2.3 B for the program so that most people can avail a cheaper broadband? 2. How would you compare the ideas of Microsoft in helping the development of the market to have a larger share of the business? 3. Can you assess the value of importance of a cheaper broadband to the school/libraries?