STATEMENT OF 
COMMISSIONER MEREDITH ATTWELL BAKER
Re:  Modernizing the FCC Form 477 Data Program, WC Docket No. 11-10; Development of 
Nationwide Broadband Data to Evaluate Reasonable and Timely Deployment of Advanced 
Services to All Americans, Improvement of Wireless Broadband Subscribership Data, and 
Development of Data on Interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Subscribership; WC 
Docket No. 07-38; Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Infrastructure and Operating Data 
Gathering, WC Docket No. 08-190; Review of Wireline Competition Bureau Data Practices, WC 
Docket No. 10-132.
Re: Review Of Wireline Competition Bureau Data Practices, WC Docket No. 10-132; Computer III 
Further Remand Proceedings:  Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services; 1998 
Biennial Regulatory Review – Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements, 
CC Docket Nos. 95-20, 98-10.
I support the process to right-size our data collections and appreciate the comprehensive approach 
we are taking.  I also support the specific decision to review the narrowband Computer III CEI and ONA 
requirements.  This is an overdue and welcome step forward.  I hope we use the same standard – whether 
the Commission relies on a submission in the course of its normal decision-making – to make more 
proposals to eliminate or scale back other outdated data submissions.  
The Commission also proposes to potentially expand its data requirements associated with our 
broadband deployment reporting.  I welcome all efforts to ensure that we have reliable and accurate data 
to inform our decision-making.  In a number of places, the Notice proposes increases—potentially 
significant ones—in the type and scope of data gathering required.  In the spirit of the broader data 
initiative, I believe the Commission should act judiciously and answer a few threshold questions before 
expanding any of our data collection obligations:  What is the nexus between the data to be requested and 
our statutory responsibilities?  Is this new data integral to fulfilling a statutory responsibility?  Is the data 
gathering the best and least burdensome means to acquire the data? 
I appreciate that many of these questions are explicitly raised in the Notice, and welcome the 
Chairman’s recognition of the heavy burden well-intentioned data requests may have on industry.  I will 
be watching this proceeding closely with particular attention on proposals surrounding broadband pricing 
and customer satisfaction metrics.  Thank you.