FCC shouldn’t delay broadband upgrades for better data, industry tells lawmakers

StateScoop: Efforts from the Federal Communications Commission to expand both fixed-wireless and mobile broadband across rural America will require more granular data to reach their full potential, but deployment efforts shouldn’t be delayed any longer, according to industry stakeholders and legislators testifying at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Lawmakers who attended the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s hearing in-person and virtually said that the FCC’s planned “Rural Digital Opportunity Fund” auction and $9 billion 5G fund should not be delayed further so that the FCC can collect more accurate coverage data.

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