Members Named to Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee; First Meeting April 21

release. “I’m excited that the Committee will soon be getting to work on recommendations that will help break down barriers to broadband deployment,” Pai said. “Closing the digital divide across America is my top priority, and the work of this committee will be a crucial step toward meeting that goal.” The FCC received more than 380 applications to sit on the BDAC and another 58 will be designated for its working groups, Pai said. Kelleigh Cole, director of the Utah Broadband Outreach Center in the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development, will be vice chair. In most FCC advisory groups, the work gets done in the working groups and Pai designated five. Model Code for Municipalities will be chaired by Douglas Dimitroff of the New York State Wireless Association and Sam Liccardo, mayor of San Jose, California, will be vice chairman. Model Code for States to be chaired by Kelly McGriff, Southern Light, and the vice chair will be Karen Charles Peterson, commissioner with the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable. Other working groups are: Competitive Access to Broadband Infrastructure -- Ken Simon, Crown Castle, chairman, Brent Skorup of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, vice chairman; Removing State and Local Regulatory Barriers -- Robert DeBroux, TDS Telecom, chairman, Kim Keenan of the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, vice chair; Streamlining Federal Siting -- Jonathan Adelstein of the Wireless Infrastructure Association, chairman, Valerie Fast Horse of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, vice chair. The April 21 meeting starts at 10 a.m. in the Commission Meeting Room. A full list of members is here, including members from AT&T Mobile, Comcast, Google Fiber, the LGBT Technology Partnership and Institute, Mimosa Networks, Sprint and Southern Co. The FCC also released a public notice establishing a docket for comments to BDAC or to file documents for its use. The docket is 17-83.