Pressure Point for the Affordable Connectivity Program
Join the Affordable Connectivity Program Rally at 11:30 a.m. (live online), with FCC commissioners, National Economic Council Deputy Director Jon Donenberg, Sen. Peter Welch, and others!

Join the Affordable Connectivity Program Rally at 11:30 a.m. (live online), with FCC commissioners, National Economic Council Deputy Director Jon Donenberg, Sen. Peter Welch, and others!
It's been a few weeks since I wrote my weekly column, but it's not for lack of news! As I write this, I'm about to head over to the Affordable Connectivity Program Rally, which is taking place Tuesday at the Shaw/Watha T. Daniel Library, at 1630 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001.
There's a lot of gloom and doom right now on the subject of renewing the ACP. Perhaps this is deservedly so. It's one of the country's most important anti-poverty programs, and it connects millions of Americans to broadband. It has widespread support on Capitol Hill. And yet it is about to expire because of America's dysfunctional budgeting process.
The city promises options ranging from symmetrical 300 megabits per second to symmetrical 1 gigabit per second.
BEAD should use all technologies, but not all technologies are equal.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opposed moving forward with the $9 billion fund as a commissioner.
New report finds affordability mandate would cut less than 1% from top ISPs’ revenues.