FCC’s Rosenworcel Acknowledges Demand for Covid Broadband Program Will ‘Outlast’ Crisis

Acting chairwoman said the need for the Emergency Broadband Benefit will outlive the pandemic.

FCC’s Rosenworcel Acknowledges Demand for Covid Broadband Program Will ‘Outlast’ Crisis
Photo of Amelia De Jesus of Wireless Infrastructure Association, Lesley Liarikos of Tower Systems, Brian O'Hara of NRECA, Joshua Seidemann of NTCA, Craig Thomas of the Broadband Forum, and Mark Boxer of OFS (left to right) and

June 30, 2021–The increasing number of households that have so far enrolled in the Federal Communications Commissions’ Emergency Broadband Benefit program suggests the program’s demand will go beyond the life of the pandemic, the agency’s Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said Tuesday.

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