The Senate voted to end the Federal Communications Committee base (FCC) that used federal financing to cover the Wi-Fi hot points that can be used outside the school and libraries.
The program, which was carried out for the first time by the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC), Jessica Rosenorssel, is applied to the money from the $ 2.6 billion in the Federal Program to a program that enabled schools and libraries to provide hot points for Wi -Fi for children and others who have access to the Internet at home.
like PolicyBand Notes before a successful procedural vote in the Senate yesterday to take over this procedure, the majority leader of the Senate John Thun (R-SD) said the base “violates the Communications Law, which clearly limits the use of the funds concerned in classrooms and libraries.”
in Last year’s statementRosenworcel did not agree that the law does not support lending hot points. Quoting learning issues of remoteness that were placed in a severe satisfaction by the Covid, Rosenworcel wrote that although “E-Ore” achieved “tremendous success in linking schools and libraries”, it must be updated so that schools and libraries can “loan the hot points of Wi-Fi to support access to high-speed internet in rural America and urban America, and everything Between them. She indicated that the change can be achieved “within the current electronic rate budget.”
The Federal Communications Committee (FCC) under the leadership of Board Chairman Brendan Car, who opposed the hot lending program, has fell strongly from consumer protection programs and turned to the Trump administration Realistic censorship. Republican members of the Congress have worked to support subsidies that help increase access to the Internet, such as FCC affordable communication programIn the name of limiting spending. Quoting a recent study in March, Techdirt He wrote that “the annual tax cost cost from 7 to 8 billion dollars for the program generated between $ 28.9 and $ 29.5 billion of savings thanks to expanded access to distance Internet services at reasonable prices.”
in statement After the vote, the Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez, which was Former President Joe Biden nominated himShe said the vote would exacerbate economic variations. “Those who have access to the Internet are sufficiently separated from those who do not have, and this decision risks the expansion of this gap so further,” said Gomez.
