Policy Positions
Siefer on COVID-19 stimulus: More action needed to connect millions of households
NDIA has released the following statement by Executive Director Angela Siefer on the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act: March 30, 2020 On Friday the House of Representatives passed and President Trump signed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act...
NDIA to FCC: Broadband affordability should be addressed in annual assessment
NDIA has once again urged the Federal Communications Commission to consider broadband adoption rates and affordability in the agency's annual assessment of “whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and...
NDIA, CWA, Public Knowledge file brief in case vs. FCC’s 5G preemption
NDIA has joined with the Communications Workers of America and Public Knowledge to submit a "friend of the Court" brief in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a Federal Communications Commission order that preempts municipal authority over the use of public property for 5G...
FCC broadband report ignores affordability issue
The Federal Communication Commission's 2019 Broadband Deployment Report was finally released on May 29, after months of delay to correct serious errors in its initial data. Even with those errors partially corrected, the new report's findings have been called...
New Digital Equity Act website; House intro coming soon
NDIA is launching a new, dedicated website for the Digital Equity Act of 2019: https://www.digitalequityact.org/. The new site features: -- Links to the bill's Congress.Gov page, which has the full text, an updated list of sponsors, committee status and other...
Senator Murray introduces Digital Equity Act of 2019
In a major development for community digital inclusion advocates, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) today introduced the "Digital Equity Act", which would authorize more than $1 billion in Federal grant funding over the next five years to support digital inclusion...
NDIA to OCC: Let banks seek CRA credit for digital inclusion support
NDIA has asked the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), the U.S. Treasury Department agency which serves as the Federal regulator for many of the nation's banks, to allow those banks to seek Community Reinvestment Act credit for their financial support...
NDIA to FCC: “Closing digital divide” means your annual broadband report should look at affordability, digital redlining
NDIA has called on the Federal Communications Commission to prove its commitment to "closing the digital divide" by adding home broadband affordability, the broadband adoption rates of low income households, and the digital redlining of urban neighborhoods to the...
NDIA urges USDA rural broadband program to push for affordability
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...
NDIA asks FCC to preserve EBS for digital inclusion
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 universities,...