The New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (NAF) submits these brief ex parte comments in response to the Federal Communication Commission Wireline Competition Bureau’s review of data practices. In the comments to the Commission, NAF proposed a systematic data collection effort for broadband communications including fundamental data on fixed broadband service capabilities, and Internet performance and traffic statistics. The comments offer a number of different measurement tools and strategies to collect performance statistics on broadband communications.

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