A Few Tips for Increasing Your Influence at the FCC

Sharon Gillett, former chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau, talks about

• some of the FCC major activities affecting broadband  that communities can participate in and/or influence;
• the typical process for moving from policy ideas to actual programs;
• how to work the public comment period; and
• ways in which communities and small or regional ISPs and telcos may partner to influence the FCC policy and programs.