The digital divide across Puerto Rico is the most acute...
The digital divide across Puerto Rico is the most acute of any in the U.S., representatives of the Puerto Rican government told FCC Wireline Bureau officials June 27, according to an ex parte filing posted Monday (http://xrl.us/bnf8z6). Fourteen percent of…
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households are unserved by any fixed broadband networks, 43 percent have no access to broadband at speeds higher than 6 Mbps, and 443,000 children have no broadband at home, they said. “Unless the FCC incorporates into the models currently being developed to determine Connect America Fund Phase II funding levels factors such as expected low take rates and the ensuing low expected revenue from broadband investments, and backhaul, energy and other high-costs affecting the economics of broadband across the island, the people of Puerto Rico will not receive a fair share of these funds,” they said. Recent FCC decisions regarding disbursement of Connect America Fund Phase I funding “do not set a good precedent” in this regard; of the $300 million one-time capital injection for broadband expansion, nothing was allocated to Puerto Rico, they said.