USTelecom President Walter McCormick Monday praised a broadband m...
USTelecom President Walter McCormick Monday praised a broadband mapping bill (HR-3627) that would provide grants to public-private partnerships that would identify regions that don’t have service. Introduced by Rep. Zack Space, D-Ohio, the bill calls for spending $40 million…
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2008 to 2012 on projects to identify gaps in broadband coverage and develop business plans for improving technology use. “This goal is essential to the economic, security and quality of living aspects of our nation,” McCormick said in a speech to the Ohio Telecom Association. The mapping project, based on an often-praised project in Kentucky that helped increase broadband usage, has won bipartisan support in Congress. House Telecom Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey, D-Mass., also has been working on a mapping bill, but it hasn’t been introduced. Space, who isn’t on the committee, has been active through his post on the Agriculture Committee in promoting rural broadband use. The telecom industry has been leery about mapping projects for fear that competitive data could be revealed, but Kentucky’s effort was a compromise that the industry endorsed. Space’s bill would attempt to replicate Kentucky’s efforts across the country. “If industries and companies are to have the ability to compete in the modern economy online, they must first have the access necessary to get there,” Space said. His bill would map resources and build demand through education efforts.