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America Is Finally Fixing Its Crappy Broadband Availability Maps
You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand. And for decades the US has refused to accurately measure the full scope of US broadband market failure.
Brace for a busy morning in telecom: Rosenworcel will helm her first monthly commission meeting, with an eye toward pandemic countermeasures, at 10:30 a.m.

Open Commission Meeting - February 2021
At this meeting, the Commission will hear presentations on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, and on Improving Broadba...
“There is widespread support for an easily accessible EBB program that meets the needs of communities, especially communities of color,” said Eric Null, U.S. Policy Manager at Access Now. “With final rules due next week, the clock is ticking for the FCC to get the benefit out to real people.…

U.S. FCC should quickly deliver Emergency Broadband Benefit to people in need - Access Now
Access Now and Free Press urge the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to immediately implement the Emergency Broadband Benefit program that Congress established in the pandemic-relief package.
www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/10/editorial-pandemic-proves-need-for-net-neutrality-open-internet/

Editorial: Pandemic proves need for net neutrality, open internet
Department of Justice decision to drop California lawsuit clears path for equal access to web sites.
"In the past twenty years, population density has favored the building of Internet infrastructure in urban areas, but there has been little economic incentive to do so in many rural parts of the country. It’s a void that the COVID-19 lockdown has laid bare, with so many Americans working from…

How the Biden Administration Can Expand Rural Broadband
Millions of Americans lack access to high-speed Internet, a digital divide that the coronavirus lockdown has laid bare.

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