July 2022

Analysis

Treasury Support Helps Connect Maine

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Monday, July 18, 2022

President Biden's Broadband Agenda Is at a Do-or-Die Moment

Net neutrality and the rest of President Joe Biden's broadband agenda hang in the balance as the president's nominee for the deadlock-breaking fifth commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission awaits a vote in the US Senate. But the process has stalled for nine months and time is running out. Gigi Sohn, a longtime public-interest advocate and former FCC adviser, was nominated in October 2021 to be the third Democrat at the agency.