Biden Campaign Proposes Universal Broadband, 5G Access
The campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrats’ presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, backed universal broadband and 5G access for all Americans in a Tuesday proposal. “Millions of households without access to broadband are locked out of an economy that…
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is increasingly reliant on virtual collaboration,” the campaign said. “As the COVID-19 crisis has revealed, Americans everywhere need universal, reliable, affordable, and high-speed internet.” The digital divide “needs to be closed everywhere. ... Just like rural electrification several generations ago, universal broadband is long overdue and critical to broadly shared economic success.” Biden’s “unity” task force with former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., cited universal broadband access among several telecom policy recommendations earlier this month (see 2007080068). A spokesperson for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign called the broader proposal “more like a socialist manifesto” that shows Biden “is beholden to the radical socialist ideology” of Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.