by Bill Callahan | Sep 11, 2018 | Policy Positions
NDIA has submitted comments to the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS), urging the agency to treat affordability for lower-income rural residents as a key factor in implementing its E-Connectivity Pilot, a new grant and loan program for...
by Bill Callahan | Aug 8, 2018 | Policy Positions
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance today submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on proposed new rules that could reduce future allocations of “Educational Broadband Service” (EBS) spectrum to local school systems, colleges and...
by Bill Callahan | Jul 18, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion, Policy Positions
Ten organizations including NDIA have called on the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to take the lead in creating a new and improved system for gathering national data on broadband access and adoption,...
by Bill Callahan | Mar 10, 2018 | Digital Inclusion News, Measuring Inclusion
It’s been a busy year. One year ago today, NDIA and Connect Your Community released AT&T’s Digital Redlining of Cleveland, our first research report on that company’s discrimination against lower-income urban neighborhoods in the deployment of its standard...
by Bill Callahan | Nov 18, 2017 | Digital Inclusion News, Policy Positions
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to move forward with dismantling the broadband Lifeline framework approved a year and a half ago under former Chairman Wheeler. Chairman Ajit Pai and his two Republican colleagues approved a Notice of Proposed...