One Maine legislator insists the U.S. broadband model is working...
One Maine legislator insists the U.S. broadband model is working and sharply contrasts it with that of Europe, while noting an urban-rural digital divide. “Federal, state and local lawmakers should make bridging the rural digital divide their top hi-tech priority,”…
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wrote Maine Rep. Diane Russell (D) in an op-ed for The Hill last week (http://bit.ly/11kSZJD). “Federal initiatives like the Department of Commerce’s Broadband Technology Opportunity [sic] Program, the FCC’s Connect America Fund and the [U.S. Department of Agriculture’s] recently reformed Broadband Loan Program reflect renewed commitment to that goal in Washington.” She praised the broader broadband initiatives in the U.S., however, and called Europe’s policies a “failure.” In an unsigned Thursday blog post (http://bit.ly/Yu7msc), Broadband for America praised her perspective and the overall U.S. broadband policies: “State Rep. Russell points out that our system in the U.S. is not broken. In reality, it is meeting the demands of consumers, content providers, software and app producers and every other entity along the line for more capacity and faster speeds -- all largely through massive private investment.”