Wicker Seeks Hearing on 'Conflicting' FCC Map Timelines
Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Roger Wicker of Mississippi said Tuesday he’s seeking a panel hearing on the FCC's plans and timeline for releasing improved broadband coverage data maps, after the chamber returns April 12 from a two-week recess. Wicker…
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and other Republicans pressed acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in early March to explain why the agency didn’t expect improved maps to be available until 2022. Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said later that Rosenworcel says a four-month timeline is possible (see 2103170068). Rosenworcel has since told the GOP leaders that the FCC now expects an initial data flow proposal for the new maps by April 12 and draft data architecture design by May 3 (see 2103290046). “These conflicting timelines clearly need to be resolved,” Wicker said in a letter to Cantwell. Rosenworcel’s response “simply gave a broad overview of the process of developing new maps, without any target completion date.”