AEI Scholar Says FCC Racking Up Accomplishments Under Pai
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has accomplished a lot, and that's often ignored by the news media, American Enterprise Institute Visiting Scholar Roslyn Layton blogged Wednesday. “Tech policy media is overwhelming focused on politicized issues, with little to no accurate coverage…
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on the substance of FCC’s activities,” she said. Layton noted FCC work to curb robocalls, deploy broadband in rural areas and fight the threat of Chinese network equipment makers. “The FCC is ushering in the 5G era by enabling record-breaking capital investments in long-lived assets, such as fiber optic cables, small cells, and spectrum licenses,” she said: “As the latest FCC Broadband Deployment Report notes, over 450,000 miles of fiber have been deployed in 2019 alone, enough to encircle the Earth over 18 times.”