The FCC has legal authority to provide support for digital...
The FCC has legal authority to provide support for digital literacy training through libraries and should do so through a fifth universal service fund, representatives of the American Library Association said in a meeting with commission officials, including General Counsel…
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Austin Schlick and Josh Gottheimer, aide to Chairman Julius Genachowski. “Section 706 [of the Communications Act] provides direct authority to the Commission to take action to ‘encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans,'” ALA said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bna5tw). “Importantly, the Commission has already correctly recognized that poor digital literacy is a barrier to infrastructure investment because it reduces the revenue available to providers who invest in broadband.”