The FCC must ensure its proposed broadband mapping program doesn’...
The FCC must ensure its proposed broadband mapping program doesn’t “unwittingly hamper or undermine” state and local efforts to increase broadband availability and adoption, Connected Nation said in meetings last week with the Wireline Bureau and Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
and Michael Copps. Connected Nation, which has led state and local efforts like Connect Kentucky, supports FCC proposals made this month in a further notice attached to an order on broadband data collection (CD June 16 p6). But the group wants to make sure the commission keeps state and local authorities in the loop, said Laura Taylor, Connected Nation chief analyst, in an interview. Mapping requires ground- level data collection, because few providers keep availability data in a useful format, she said. “On its own, the FCC would be hard pressed to create an accurate or meaningful availability map, but state-based programs could be built into this process to make it effective,” she said. Connected Nation has meetings scheduled with the other three commissioners next week, she said.