Thursday, June 11, 2020

5 steps to get the internet to all Americans - Tom Wheeler, Brookings Institution

Released in April, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2020 Broadband Development Report identified approximately 18 million Americans—principally in rural areas—without access to any broadband network. Regardless of how it is funded, the solution to universal broadband in America is not to patch the old program, but to throw it out. The program now in place was designed for a telephone-oriented world, not the internet economy. Here are five lessons we learned that should apply to any program to provide universal broadband for all Americans.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/5-steps-to-get-the-internet-to-all-americans/