Due to the support E-rate has provided, more...
Due to the support E-rate has provided, more than 95 percent of schools are connected to the Internet -- but the work is not done, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel told the Sesame Workshop in New York Friday, according to her…
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prepared remarks (http://fcc.us/1hsR3GT). “The challenge today is not connection, it’s capacity,” she said. Many schools access the Internet at only 3 Mbps, she said. Rosenworcel pushed for connecting every school to 100 Mbps per 1,000 students in the near term, and 1 Gbps per 1,000 students by the end of the decade. The interests of E-rate overhaul and the interests of “quality educational content” are linked, she said: “By bringing really high-speed broadband to every school in every community across the country we will create new opportunities for educational content at new scale. This scale has the potential to stimulate a new market for digital educational media.”