Digital Skills and Broadband Adoption
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
January 2020
Analysis
Analysis
Rural broadband is currently having a moment in American political discourse. No less than 5 presidential candidates have released plans to connect the country’s rural places, and the FCC has recently announced a $20billion funding program for fixed broadband and a $9billion program for 5G deployment in rural America. Despite these initiatives and interests, however, rural America remains woefully disconnected from a digital world that the urban and wealthy take for granted.
Witnesses
Patrick Spence, Sonos
David Barnett, PopSockets
David Heinemeier Hansson, Basecamp
Kirsten Daru, Tile
T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Concern Mounts on Wall Street (Wall Street Journal)
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FCC estimates how many homes and businesses will benefit from Rural Digital Opportunity Fund
SHLB Applauds Chairman Pai’s Leadership in Connecting Schools and Libraries
In a letter, the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition applauded Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai for promoting fiber broadband deployment to schools and libraries through the E-rate program. “Competitive bidding has been a fundamental principle of the E-rate program since its inception,” said John Windhausen, executive director of the SHLB Coalition.