WISPs Trying to Make Clear Concerns with Broadband Program Rules
The Wireless ISP Association is encouraging members to write to governors and members of Congress objecting to NTIA’s definition of reliable broadband service unveiled last month for its broadband, equity, access and deployment program (see 2205130054), a spokesperson said Friday.…
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“Many small ISPs like mine have for decades provided reliable, predictable and evolutionary broadband service to hard-to-reach communities,” says a prototype letter from the group: “Our customers were left behind by larger companies who long ago abandoned efforts to serve rural and disadvantaged communities because the economics just did not make sense for them. … Simply put, we have always used the right tool for the job to connect our neighbors who previously had no other options.”