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Telecom, media and technology policy. Many hats. Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, American Association for Public Broadband, Georgetown Law School, G Squared Strategies. Find me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gigisohn/
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Here's a speech I gave in 2021 that talks about the mistakes the Government made from 2010-2020 which resulted in rural states being stuck with slow, expensive Internet. Let's not make the same mistake again! www.benton.org/blog/mapping...
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Forcing statest to give most of the BEAD money to satellite is an absolute guarantee that they will come back to Congress in 5 years asking for more money to close the rural digital divide.
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Congress intended the BEAD program to be a state program where state broadband officials determine what technologies are best for their residents. For many, it will be a mix - mostly fiber, but some wireless and satellite.
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Btw, that means in the last 24 hours we've had:
-Cory Booker going for a record in holding the floor
-Ruben Gallego putting a hold on VA nominees over cuts to veterans care
-Adam Schiff putting a hold on Ed Martin's nomination for DC US attorney over... a lot
That's a genuinely good start.
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also, where are they while all of our consumer protection regulators get stripped of power, defunded, and turned into pumpkins in service to unchecked corporate power?
where are all the podcasts, interviews, and stories about that?
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In all my years of being a communications policy advocate, I don’t think I’ve ever been on the same side as former Solicitor General Paul Clement, who is representing the broadband providers. So glad I am today!
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Very impressed with Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris. Her answers are clear, concise and definitive.
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Why is the UK kicking our butt? Because the adopted the pro-competitive telecom policies that the FCC abandoned in 2002.
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Thanks Chris, but I think the chances of any D being nominated by Trump to the FCC are close to zero. And he just fired both D FTC Commissioners.
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Now is the time for state officials and Congressmembers to tell Secretary Lutnick to let states decide which technology is best for their residents. That is what Congress wanted when it set up the program.
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Members of Congress in rural districts - if you think your constituents are angry at you now, imagine how they'll feel if they get stuck with slow, congested satellite broadband service rather than super-fast, reliable fiber.
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Kudos to Evan Feinman, the head of the Broadband, Equity, Access & Deployment Program at Commerce, who said what needed to be said to alert state officials, members of Congress and the public of how Congress' historic investment in broadband may soon be, in my words thrown "down the toilet."
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The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*
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One important thing to remember is that not a single living soul will remember a shut-down one way or another when they go to vote in the midterms 20 months later.