Revised Section 706 Report Still Finds Digital Divide 'Narrowing'

摘要

The FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau has provided a revised version of the draft 2019 report on broadband deployment, reflecting a review in light of the discovery that some provider-submitted data "drastically overstated deployment data to the FCC," the agency said in a May 1 press release. However, the conclusion of the revised draft report - commonly known as the section 706 report after the section of the Communications Act that first mandated it - is unchanged from February when FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced he was circulating to his fellow Commissioners in February (TR, March 1). It continues to find that "significant progress has been made in closing the digital divide in America," according to the May 1 press release.