Clyburn, Manchin Urge FCC to Create New Mobility Fund
Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., urged the FCC to take up a new mobility fund. Then-Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a vote on an order creating one, which was scheduled for commissioners’ November meeting, but it was pulled…
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from the agenda (see 1611170054). The mobility fund has been a Clyburn focus. “At least 1.5 million people are still relegated to a second-class, mobile broadband experience,” the two said in an commentary Wednesday in Morning Consult. “While the majority of people who live in urban areas have the option of easily downloading a song or a large document in a matter of seconds, the tens of thousands of Americans stuck in a 2G reality need upwards of eight minutes to listen to or to read the same files. In a country where 92 percent of adults have a mobile handset, this is unacceptable. We must respond to the clear demand for mobile connectivity and put robust mobile broadband services into the hands, pockets and palms of all Americans.”