FCC Commissioners Sharply Disagree on U.S. Broadband Report
27 Apr 2020
A Federal Communications Commission report Friday indicated that the U.S. is making progress on closing the digital divide, but FCC commissioners don’t agree on how much progress has been made.
The 2020 Broadband Deployment Report showed that very high-speed broadband service (250 Mbps/25 Mbps) can be accessed by roughly 85 percent of citizens — a number that has gone up by 47 percent since 2017. The report attributes this and other gains to the $80 billion invested in broadband infrastructure in 2018, a significant increase in fiber-to-the-home projects in 2019 and the advent of 5G technology.
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The “New Safer-At-Home” order gives some businesses deemed non-essential more flexibility to continue operating. We speak with the governor’s chief of economic development about keeping businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
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