As the federal government prepares to deploy $42.5B for broadband development, the money will flow to states via the Commerce Department, bypassing the FCC
the agency that has traditionally doled out subsidies for internet connections — is on the sidelines. https://www.axios.com/... Tim Farrar / @tmfassociates : Does this administration care about the FCC, given it hasn't even made nominations yet? https://twitter.com/... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : as a quick historical aside: this is pretty much the same approach Dems took more than a decade ago with the Recovery Act, using NTIA and RUS to handle billions in broadband grants/loans https://twitter.com/...
Axios is polite about this but the FCC bungled broadband mapping and subsidies so badly lawmakers didn't trust it to handle the broadband infrastructure money: https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
As the federal government readies to spend tens of billions of dollars on broadband upgrades, the FCC — the agency that has traditionally doled out subsidies for internet connections — is on the sidelines. https://www.axios.com/...
as a quick historical aside: this is pretty much the same approach Dems took more than a decade ago with the Recovery Act, using NTIA and RUS to handle billions in broadband grants/loans https://twitter.com/...