The FCC should help schools, libraries and other anchor institutions...
The FCC should help schools, libraries and other anchor institutions when it overhauls the Universal Service Fund, said Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif. In a letter Monday to Chairman Julius Genachowski, Matsui said broadband carriers receiving money from the high-cost fund…
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must help anchors in rural and urban areas. The letter was also signed by House Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Mike Doyle, D-Pa. “These institutions are engaged in some of our most important national priorities -- education, economic development, health and wellness, job training and support, and access to e-government services, among many others,” the members wrote. The Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition agreed, calling broadband “essential to increasing educational opportunities, telemedicine and economic growth in rural America."