Broadband Groups Urge Farm Bill Conferees to Adopt Senate's Anti-Overbuild Provisions
USTelecom, ITTA, NCTA and NTCA urged the conference committee reconciling House- and Senate-passed farm bills (see 1807160064) to adopt language from the Senate bill that would revamp elements of Rural Utilities Service (RUS) broadband funding programs (see 1806140067). That language…
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would “better target broadband support to unserved areas and limit overbuilding, including overbuilding in places where broadband providers have accepted federal funds to support broadband connections, such as Universal Service/Connect America support aimed at promoting and sustaining broadband deployment in high-cost rural areas,” the groups said in a Tuesday letter. That would jibe with requirements Congress included in the FY 2018 omnibus spending bill that authorized the $600 million RUS-administered pilot Distance Learning, Telemedicine and Broadband Program (see 1803210041 and 1803230038), the groups said.