MMTC: Action Needed on Broadband in Puerto Rico

In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, the Minority and Media Telecommunications Council says the FCC needs to pay more attention to the broadband needs of Puerto Rico, including reversing an earlier decision not to create a separate high-cost fund to help close the digital divide there. MMTC points out that the recently released report on broadband deployment found that there was virtually no broadband service to Puerto Rico and its four million citizens. Given that the report concluded that broadband is "essential to participation in our 21st Century economy and democracy," MMTC said that the FCC "cannot continue to sit idly by and allow the digital divide between Puerto Rico and the rest of America to grow even wider."