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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently released an overview of initiatives based on "bridging the digital divide for all Americans," [32] some of these include: Launching the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which would direct up to $20.4 billion to expand broadband in unserved rural areas.
The official definition of “broadband” in the US has changed, regulators have announced. ... The FCC raised its metrics from 4Mpbs download speeds to 25Mbps in 2015. Since then, politicians ...
The broadband maps were then used by the CPUC to determine both "unserved areas" (defined as an area that is not served by any form of facilities-based broadband, or where Internet connectivity is available only through dial-up service or satellite) and "underserved" areas (defined as an area in which broadband is available but no facilities ...
The FCC derives its jurisdiction to facilitate the deployment of broadband to Americans in Section 706 in the Telecommunications act of 1996. In this section the code states that the FCC is to “encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.” [ 9 ] They currently want to ...
The Biden administration is moving to blunt the loss of an expired broadband subsidy program that helped more than 23 million families afford internet access by using money from an existing ...
Tens of millions of Americans still don’t have access to high-speed home internet, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday in a new report highlighting the digital divide.
On October 27, 2011, the FCC adopted its "Connect America Fund & Intercarrier Compensation Reform Order" which established a $4.5 billion Connect America Fund to expand broadband access to seven million unserved rural Americans, replacing the Universal Service Fund's high-cost support and explicitly endorsing broadband as a universal service. [43]
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