King Calls Broadband Council Recommendations 'Roadmap' for Deployment
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, lauded the White House’s Broadband Opportunity Council's Monday report (see 1509210053). It "should serve as a roadmap to how we can better deploy broadband across the country by investing in our digital infrastructure, modernizing federal programs…
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that support broadband, and reducing overly burdensome regulations that stand in the way of broadband growth,” said King, who had supplied his own recommendations to the council earlier this year alongside other senators'. “Expanding access to broadband will jumpstart economic growth and help close the digital divide that stymies opportunities for too many people, particularly those who live in rural states like Maine.” There is “much work left to be done,” demonstrated by the report, King added. The National Hispanic Media Coalition also praised the report.