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FCC Claims Unprecedented Broadband Growth Amid Controversial Policies

Calendar Feb 27, 2019 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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The FCC this week proclaimed that broadband connectivity saw unprecedented growth last year thanks to agency policies like killing net neutrality. The problem? That doesn’t appear to be true.

Bylaw, the FCC is required to submit a periodic report on the state of U.S. broadband, noting whether or not affordable internet is being deployed on a “reasonable and timely basis.” While the FCC didn’t release its full data to the public, it did issue apress releaseciting some very specific statistics agency boss Ajit Pai claimed proved his agency was curing the “digital divide.”

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