Carr: Treasury ARPA Broadband Rules 'Misguided'
Treasury Department rules for American Rescue Plan Act broadband funds "highlights the [Biden] administration's misplaced priorities and misguided approach to infrastructure," said FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Friday. The rules "greenlight spending to overbuild existing, high-speed networks" rather than "directing…
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those dollars to the rural and other communities that lack access to any broadband," Carr said. They require projects to provide service that "reliably meets or exceeds 100 Mbps download speed and between at least 20 Mbps and 100 Mbps upload speeds and be scalable to a minimum of 100 Mbps symmetrical." Funding recipients "may choose to consider any available data," which also concerned Carr.