New FCC Broadband Committee Should Make Rural Areas a Key Focus, Deere Says
With the first meeting of the FCC’s new Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee set for Friday (see 1704060038), Deere & Company underscored the importance of broadband to agriculture. “Deere has undertaken to bring special attention to the growing need for high-speed…
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broadband of rural users and, in particular, the agricultural sector which remains the lifeblood of a majority of the nation’s rural economies and communities,” the company said in a filing at the FCC in docket 17-83. “Deere is hopeful that the BDAC will address the particular needs and challenges of the nation’s rural areas in devising recommendations to lower barriers to high speed broadband deployment.” Deere specifically recommended that BDAC Streamlining Federal Siting working group be renamed the “Rural Areas, including Streamlining Federal Siting” working group. “With this change, this working group would have the challenges of high speed broadband deployment in rural areas clearly within its focus,” the filing said.