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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...
December 21, 2020
Million for FCC Telehealth Program in Provisions Sought By Cantwell December 21 2020 TV Quality Video YouTube Audio Bill represents first significant package to address Tribal broadband gap FCC Telehealth...Washington This package also provides additional funding to the Federal Communications Commission FCC for its COVID 19 Telehealth Program which was first authorized under the CARES Act This legislation...program in the State of Washington According to a report issued by the Federal Communications Commission FCC in May 2019 less than half of households in Indian Country have access to high speed broadband service...
December 8, 2020
Twitter YouTube Whistleblower Press Releases Home Newsroom Press Releases Print Cantwell Votes Against FCC Nomination of Nathan Simington Urged Colleagues to Reject Nomination December 8 2020 TV Quality Video...problems with the FCC trying to issue rules related to Section 230 at President Trump s behest In encouraging her colleagues to vote against Simington Cantwell said We definitely want the FCC to focus on commonsense...the next President of the United States also gets to choose their member and representation to the FCC The Senate has a tradition of confirming Commission nominees in pairs to assure the equality of both...
December 2, 2020
Releases Print Ranking Member Cantwell Commerce Democrats Unanimously Oppose Controversial Lame Duck FCC Nominee December 2 2020 WASHINGTON D C Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation Ranking...Communications Commission as well as nominees for NOAA and the Department of Commerce Thank you Mr Chairman The FCC s role has become even more critical in the time of a COVID crisis with the majority of Americans considering...problems with the FCC trying to issue rules related to Section 230 at the President s behest Mr Simington has nominated was nominated a few short weeks later coming from NTIA which asked the FCC to issue these...
June 24, 2020
Criticizes The FCC s Ligado Decision June 24 2020 TV Quality Video Audio Transcripts Cantwell We must expand high quality affordable broadband in underserved and unserved communities FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel...And yet nothing has happened Senator Cantwell also criticized the Federal Communications Commission FCC s decision to approve Ligado Network s deployment of a nationwide mobile broadband network despite...bipartisan letter to the FCC strongly opposing this decision In response to a question from Senator Cantwell FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel indicated she would support pausing the FCC s Ligado approval...
May 13, 2020
to high speed internet at home According to report issued by the Federal Communications Commission FCC in May 2019 less than half of households in Indian Country have access to broadband service This represents...efforts to close the homework gap I m proud to be a cosponsor of legislation that he has for emergency FCC E Rate funding to address this need and try to close the gap Finally Ranking Member Cantwell highlighted...
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 11, 2020
Ranking Member Cantwell warned that 5G auction could damage weather forecasting and sent a letter to the FCC urging the Trump administration not to allow wireless companies to operate in 24 GHz spectrum until...
March 5, 2020
Facebook Twitter YouTube Whistleblower Press Releases Home Newsroom Press Releases Print Cantwell Urges FCC Chairman to Act Amid Coronavirus Crisis March 5 2020 WASHINGTON D C Today Senator Maria Cantwell D...of the Federal Communications Commission FCC urging the agency to put existing authority and programs to use to directly aid in the coronavirus response The FCC has adopted temporary rules in the wake of...telemedicine and advanced telecommunications services I believe that the Federal Communications Commission FCC is uniquely positioned to respond to some of the challenges posed by COVID 19 just as it has in the...
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