Adelstein to NTCA: Our Efforts are Linked

ADELSTEIN TO NTCA: OUR EFFORTS ARE LINKED
[SOURCE: xchange, AUTHOR: Kelly M. Teal]
Federal Communications Commission member Jonathan Adelstein on Tuesday said he’s committed to fighting for greater broadband deployment and meaningful Universal Service reform. Commissioner Adelstein served as the keynote speaker at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association’s (NTCA) annual meeting. He’s the commissioner most in tune with rural telco concerns; he hails from South Dakota. “Your work and my efforts on the FCC are really totally linked,” he told attendees. Commissioner Adelstein said broadband deployment is among the most important policy topics regulators need to address, and soon. That’s because the United States is falling further behind other countries in terms of broadband speed and price, a sacrifice America can’t make when broadband “is redefining the economy of the world,” Adelstein said. He also chided a report released Jan. 31 by the White House’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that lauds “dramatic growth of broadband in the United States.”
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