MMTC Tells Government There is Need for More Than Speed

The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council said that President Barack Obama’s recent broadband proposal lacks two important elements: 1) addressing the continuing second-class digital citizenship for people of color, seniors, people with disabilities, and the poor and 2) a plan for ending digital redlining, which MMTC defines as “the refusal to build and serve lower-income communities on the same terms as wealthier communities.”

"Government must look behind the bright lights of better, faster, cheaper broadband and provide safeguards to ensure that broadband networks are not deployed in a manner that ultimately redlines communities based on socio-economic factors and widens the digital divide," MMTC wrote. [Maybe we could look in Title II for solutions?]