FCC Commissioner Wants Your Broadband Availability Horror Story While FCC bos Ajit Pai is busy trying to gut consumer protections like net neutrality, his fellow staffer Jessica Rosenworcel is trying to bring some much-needed attention to the country's broadband availability gaps. Speaking at an oversight hearing this week, Rosenworcel says she set up an e-mail address (broadbandfail@fcc.gov) to receive user complaints about their failure to hear the stories of those that “have not been able to get service, or live in an area that lacks it."

At the hearing Rosenworcel was quick to point out that the FCC's national broadband availability map , which cost taxpayers $300 million, hasn't been updated in three years now. “Too often the FCC cobbles together data for each individual rulemaking and report without a comprehensive and updated snapshot of where service is and is not,” said Rosenworcel at the hearing. The FCC Commissioner also took a few shots at the policy agenda of agency boss Pai, who she said was blindly aiding the megamerger ambitions of companies like Sinclair with his recent attacks on media consolidation rules. "I think it has reached a point where all our media policy decisions seem to be custom built for this one company, and I think it merits investigation," said the Commissioner. Rosenworcel also called Pai's plan to Rosenworcel also called Pai's plan to actively weaken broadband deployment standards (purportedly to make it easier to ignore a lack of competition in the sector) "crazy."







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nathilliv

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Bloomington, IN 17 recommendations nathilliv Member Jessica Rosenworcel is my hero FINALLY, a person in Washington who is not owned by big business.

Pai is a joke, and Rosenworcel is a breath of fresh air. Roadkill

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united state 7 recommendations Roadkill Premium Member Broadband Horror Story Said by Jessica Rosenworcel: "Rosenworcel says she set up an e-mail address (broadbandfail@fcc.gov) to receive user complaints about their failure to hear the stories of those that “have not been able to get service, or live in an area that lacks it."



How do you email if you “have not been able to get service, or live in an area that lacks it."? Just a little play with wording that seems ironic to me.

SteveV

join:2016-08-21

Williamsburg, VA 4 recommendations SteveV Member Next...How many days before Rosenworcel steps down for personal reasons? While her comments should be applauded, I'm guessing she's signed he own walking papers--a shame since she appears to be the only one interested in serving the people rather than the industry.

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3 recommendations dslwanter Premium Member Lack of competition Can we send that horror story as well? For example, I'm forced to pay $167/month for Internet & TV Service with a 1TB cap, and that's only because I have TV service, if I didn't, it's a 400GB cap. I could easily keep the Internet package I have and subscribe to a streaming TV service such as Hulu, Sling, or PS Vue, and be closer to $100/month, but I can't for fear that my household would go over and be charged $10 per GB over.