Rep Feenstra Introduces the Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act

Rep Randy Feenstra (R-IA-4) introduced the Lowering Broadband Costs for Consumers Act to help construct broadband in rural Iowa. This legislation would require that the largest financial beneficiaries of the networks, also known as “edge providers”—such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Netflix—ontribute their fair share toward the networks that are built and maintained by the Universal Service Fund (USF) and by consumers who own landlines throughout the country. Rep Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) is the co-lead of this legislation.