SHLB, Others Support Proposed Hot Spot Lending Program
Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition representatives met with FCC Wireline Bureau staff and aides to the Democratic commissioners in support of a proposed hot spot lending program. “There is a particularly important need to help low-income students access the…
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internet across their daily journey, and lacking access to digital learning affects life trajectories and opportunities, especially for students,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 13-184. The program shouldn’t be too narrowly focused on funding “existing commercial mobile hotspot services,” the filing said. Representatives of the Open Technology Institute at New America and the Fresno, California, Unified School District also participated in the meetings.