Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr Says Agency Coronavirus Response a Success

The Federal Communication Commission’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been successful, Commissioner Brendan Carr said. The virus has spurred organizations across the world to provide work-from-home options for employees, and Commissioner Carr said that the transition found existing US infrastructure prepared. “What we’re saying very consistently is this was a stress test of the internet, and in the US, it performed very well,” he said. Commissioner Carr attributed the ease of the U.S.’s broadband landscape transition in part to increased high-speed fiber. “Last year on the wired side, there was something like 400,000 new miles of high-speed wire that went into the internet,” he said.