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March 8, 2021
Twitter YouTube Whistleblower Press Releases Home Newsroom Press Releases Print Committee Leaders Urge FCC to Quickly Produce Accurate Broadband Maps March 8 2021 WASHINGTON U S Sens Roger Wicker R Miss ranking...Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel inquiring about the agency s status on completing its mapping...Act This law reformed the FCC s broadband data collection and mapping process to create more accurate and granular broadband availability maps Congress also provided the FCC with 98 million to fund this...
March 4, 2021
funds would be available for Congress to authorize for use by the Federal Communications Commission FCC or the National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIA This bill marks a meaningful...would be deposited up to 65 billion Make funds available for Congress to authorize for use by the FCC or the NTIA Establish a sense of Congress to make potential uses for the fund that include broadband...
January 26, 2021
agriculture industries will be very important for us moving forward During the last four years the FCC I believe ran roughshod over concerns raised by various committees within Congress on these airwave...new program as part of the COVID bill the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program The 2019 report from FCC found that less than half of households in Indian Country have access to high speed broadband services...
November 10, 2020
international communications matters Mr Nathan Simington has been nominated to serve as a member of the FCC for a term of five years from July 1 2019 Mr Simington has been a Senior Advisor for the National Telecommunications...
July 22, 2020
various implementations of the CARES Act Mr Michael O Rielly to be a Member of the FCC Commission He s served on the FCC Commission since 2013 In 2018 the U S Office of Special Counsel concluded that Mr...
June 24, 2020
provide members an opportunity to examine policy issues before the Federal Communications Commission FCC and review the agency s ongoing activities and proceedings Witnesses The Honorable Ajit Pai Chairman...Majority Statement Chairman Roger Wicker Read statement Majority Statement Chairman Roger Wicker The FCC is the nation s primary regulator of interstate and international communications networks A core part...to rapid efficient and nationwide communications services at reasonable prices Never before has the FCC s responsibility to achieve this mission been more important The COVID 19 public health emergency has...
June 16, 2020
this role for which he has been nominated Commissioner Michael O Rielly has served as a member of the FCC since 2013 having been unanimously confirmed twice by the full Senate He has now been nominated to...and has made other important contributions to the work of the Commission Prior to his service at the FCC Commissioner O Rielly held a number of staff positions in the U S Congress including service with the...surface transportation reauthorization bill And finally Mr O Rielly to serve as a Commissioner on the FCC Welcome back We have a lot to talk about everything from the Ligado decision to your views on the 5...
May 13, 2020
pandemic began The good news is that there has been some progress in connecting all Americans The FCC s recently released Broadband Deployment Report tells us that the number of households without access...public health crisis has made these efforts all the more urgent I appreciate initiatives led by the FCC to sustain and accelerate the availability of broadband connections This includes the Keep Americans...also provided federal resources to broadband related programs in response to COVID 19 For example the FCC received 200 million for a telehealth program that is designed to provide immediate assistance to eligible...
March 23, 2020
Act into law The legislation will improve the accuracy of the Federal Communications Commission s FCC broadband availability maps by strengthening the process by which broadband data is collected Americans...where there is broadband service and at what speeds it is being offered This legislation requires the FCC to update its flawed maps to help deploy service to the estimated 20 million Americans without access...into law The Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability DATA Act will Require the FCC to collect granular service availability data from wired fixed wireless and satellite broadband providers...
March 4, 2020
adopt to mitigate risks to vulnerable supply chains I also hope we will learn about what more the FCC can do to secure legacy networks and manage security risks in the transition to 5G Minority Statement...
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