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September 2020

Chairman Pai's Remarks on Telehealth to the Health Innovation Alliance

From the outset of the pandemic, it was clear that we needed to do everything we could to connect patients with their health care providers. So back in March, the Federal Communications Commission immediately made an additional $42 million available through our Rural Health Care Program. We also waived socalled “gift rules” so that participants in the Rural Health Care Program could solicit and accept better services or additional equipment for telemedicine from their broadband providers. And thanks to Congress, we were able to do much, much more.

FCC To Hold Open Commission Meeting Sept 30, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on the subjects listed below on Wednesday, Sept 30, 2020:

Op-ed

"What We've Got Here Is Failure To Communicate"

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Common Cause

Harris County (TN) Moves Ahead with Broadband Partnership

By unanimous vote, the Henry County Commission entered into a partnership with the West Kentucky & Tennessee Telecommunications Cooperative with a goal to provide the opportunity for broadband services for every household in Henry County. “Broadband is extremely necessary for our underserved areas,” County Mayor Brent Greer said. “Within a short period of time, we’ve put a lot of things together because of the importance of this.” Mayor Greer noted the work on providing broadband to Henry County actually started 18 months ago with much the same goals as there are now.

1,000 homes in northwest Dayton have no Internet. City wants to change that

The city of Dayton is searching for a vendor to help bring high-speed internet to some high-poverty areas in the northwestern part of the city using federal coronavirus relief money. The city has issued a notice of funding opportunities that says it has $1.4 million in federal CARES Act dollars available to expand broadband access to multiple neighborhoods, including Philadelphia Woods, Fairview, Hillcrest, Dayton View, Mount Vernon, and Santa Clara. About 952 households in those neighborhoods do not have internet access, or nearly a quarter of the total (22.8%), according to Census data. T

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