The National Congress of American Indians wants a third of...
The National Congress of American Indians wants a third of the FCC’s proposed Mobility Fund for building out broadband to be set aside for a tribal mobility fund, the group said in a filing posted Wednesday to docket 10-208. “Since…
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Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) in Indian Country lags over 30 percent behind national deployment (less than 68 percent of residents in Indian Country have telephones, while deployment in the rest of the United States tops 98 percent), setting aside” 33 percent of the mobility fund would spur broadband deployment in such areas, the group said. It met last Thursday, at a Native Nations Day held at the commission, with officials including Geoffrey Blackwell, chief of the Office of Native Affairs and Policy.