[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 199 (Friday, October 15, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63474-63475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-25925]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Approved by Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB)

October 7, 2010.
SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public 
information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
Public Law 104-13. An agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is 
not required to respond to a collection of information unless it 
displays a currently valid control number.

DATES: Persons wishing to comment on this information collection should 
submit comments by November 15, 2010. If you anticipate that you will 
be submitting comments, but find it difficult to do so within the 
period of time allowed by this notice, you should advise the contact 
listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Nicholas A. Fraser, Office of

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Management and Budget (OMB), via fax at (202) 395-5167, or via the 
Internet at [email protected], and to Nancy J. Brooks, 
(202) 418-2454 or via the Internet at [email protected], Federal 
Communications Commission (FCC). To submit your PRA comments by e-mail 
send them to: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Brooks, (202) 418-2454or via the 
Internet at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    OMB Control No.: 3060-1139.
    OMB Approval Date: 10/4/2010.
    OMB Expiration Date: 4/30/2011.
    Title: Residential Fixed Broadband Services Testing and 
Measurement.
    Form No.: N/A.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 11,016 responses; 14,200 total annual 
hours; 1 hour per response.
    Obligation To Respond: Voluntary. Statutory authorities for this 
information collection are contained in the American Reinvestment and 
Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009, Public Law 111-5 and the Broadband Data 
Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law 111-385.
    Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: Yes. See Privacy Act Impact 
Assessment below.
    Privacy Act Impact Assessment: Yes, however, no personally 
identifiable information (PII) will be transmitted to the Commission. 
SamKnows, Inc. maintains a series of administrative, technical and 
physical safeguards to protect against the transmission of personally 
identifying information. At point of registration, individuals will be 
given full disclosure, highlighting what information will be collected, 
and importantly, what information will not be collected.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission has contracted with SamKnows, Inc. 
to measure the speeds and performance of a representative, cost-
effective, statistically relevant sample of U.S. fixed broadband 
households across geographics, technologies and providers. This 
measurement will occur on an opt-in, voluntary basis. This 
representative sample will be used to create a baseline level of 
performance and measurements for the FCC. The third party measurement 
contractor will deploy testing devices to begin measurement, and these 
results will then be used to inform measurement standards for 
performance of broadband services, in support of the FCC-led National 
Broadband Plan.
    This revised information collection responds to new requirements 
that were initially unforeseen in the SamKnows Residential Fixed 
Broadband Services Testing and Measurement program. Recent surveys 
demonstrate a majority of consumers are not able to accurately report 
the broadband service information approved in the First Collection. 
Furthermore in recent discussions as part of this data collection 
effort, broadband internet service providers (ISPs) have indicated that 
certain technical characteristics of consumer broadband service may 
vary region to region and such details may not be fully known to the 
consumer. Relevant ISPs have offered to partner with the FCC in the 
testing and measurement trial by verifying certain customer information 
(ISP Partners) collected by SamKnows and by providing associated data 
not directly obtainable from the consumer. On September 2, 2010, the 
Commission requested emergency approval of the information collection 
requirements from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On October 
4, 2010, the Commission received OMB approval.


Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-25925 Filed 10-14-10; 8:45 am]
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