NARUC President Backs Rural Broadband Acceleration Act
NARUC President Brandon Presley endorsed the Rural Broadband Acceleration Act (HR-7022). He’s gathering support for a petition to President Donald Trump and Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., “urging them to take action to accelerate” the Rural Digital…
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Opportunity Fund Oct. 29 start. Wicker is considering ways to speed up the Phase I timeline in response to an earlier Presley-led letter. HR-7022 co-sponsor James Clyburn, D-S.C's office listed NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson among those supporting HR-7022. Lorea Stallard, deputy director of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) office in Washington, D.C., signaled support for the bill during a Thursday virtual meeting of the North Carolina broadband task force. It’s “a more narrowly tailored bill” than HR-6800, “but I think it would do a lot,” she said. The Wireless ISP Association criticized HR-7022 (see 2005280065).