Pritzker, Vilsack Urged To Look at Best Practices on Broadband Deployment
Thirteen senators from both parties urged Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack “to take a holistic view of our successes and failures at incentivizing broadband deployment in high-cost, hard to serve areas,” in a letter dated Monday,…
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citing Pritzker's and Vilsack’s roles as co-chairs of the Broadband Opportunity Council. The senators urged Vilsack and Pritzker to coordinate with the FCC and “request a detailed analysis of these initiatives and a list of best practices be included in your report to the President due no later than August 20, 2015,” the letter said, emphasizing the importance of public-private partnerships. The leading signers of the letter are Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., who sent a similar letter to Pritzker and Vilsack with fewer signatories in May. President Barack Obama, in creating the council March 23, said it would have to deliver a report "not later than 150 days" after that day that outlines "recommendations on actions that agencies can take to support broadband deployment and adoption. Such recommendations shall include a list of priority actions and rulemakings, as well as timelines to complete them."