The FCC Is Sucking The Life Out Of Lifeline

Chairman Pai is giving lip service to addressing the digital divide, but with no concrete vision of how to support and/or improve the programs the FCC already has in place to address it. Instead, we see, late on Friday evenings, Chairman Pai and Commissioner O’Reilly quietly gutting or hampering innovative pieces of the existing programs. Given this strategy, there is no avenue for a proactive discussion between stakeholders and the FCC -- public interest advocates are left only with a reactive position.