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Price Tag To Develop FCC National Broadband Plan

Are you interested in knowing how much the government spent on just developing the FCC's National Broadband Plan?  I'm not talking about implementing the plan, but just the costs to develop to "outline" of implementing the plan.  $20.6 million. Source.

Here's the breakdown of the costs:

• Salaries: $6.38 million.
• IT: $5.37 million.
• Software and Cost Modeling: $3.92 million.
• Data and Research: $4.01 million.
• Printing and Production: $60,000.
• Workshop and Travel: $34,000.