Congress needs to create a solution that reflects how Americans actually use telecommunications services rather than how we once did.
Op-eds
Americans Are Voting for Broadband
For most of us, it’s hard to imagine having spent the last six months without access to reliable, high-speed broadband internet. But for at least 18 million Americans, that’s been their everyday reality – limited options for staying in touch with family and friends, lost work opportunities, no connectivity for distance learning and no way to benefit from telehealth visits.
America’s Digitally Powered Racial Awakening
Whether you live on a reservation or in the middle of a crowded city, the need to share the reality of our human experience has never been more relevant or urgent. The internet is enabling this like no generation before; empathy and understanding are finally within reach.
Pandemic Shows Why All Americans Need Broadband Access
We have come to realize that, for our national well-being, the internet must be available and affordable to all.
Bridging the Digital Divide has Never Been More Critical
As Americans continue to persevere through the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously confronting a deep recession and persistent social injustice, we need to come to grips with one of the challenges these convergent crises have brought into bold relief: the digital divide.
Increase Broadband Access for Americans In Need
With more Americans than ever working and learning from home, the necessity of having a broadband connection is underscored, and one of the biggest flaws of our communications infrastructure is revealed: It doesn’t reach everyone.
Congress should make sure telemedicine is here to stay
The COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying relaxation of regulatory barriers has occasioned an explosion in telemedicine use, vaulting it to the center of health care delivery.
All of America’s Kids Should Have Access to the Virtual Classroom
The “homework gap” affects about 12 million children of school age across the country who lack broadband connectivity in their homes. The culprit is a combination of a lack of access to a broadband connection (especially for those in rural areas) and a lack of adoption (primarily among low-income families in more urban and suburban areas).
School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
We’re progressing from a homework gap to a full-on education gap.
Prioritize quality internet connections in order for students to learn remotely
We are living in an age when we can no longer allow geographical barriers and insufficient safety nets to stop us from bringing high-speed internet to every American.
Congress can narrow the healthcare gap by closing the digital divide
As promising as telemedicine is for rural medicine, obtaining a high-speed internet connection for telehealth is an impossibility for tens of millions of rural residents who are on the wrong side of a seemingly intractable digital divide.
Boucher LTE for The Hill: The internet is easing the pandemic’s strain on society
It’s no secret that the pandemic is putting a strain on all segments of our society – but we’re pushing forward. That resilience is largely possible thanks to one of human-kind’s greatest and most complex inventions: the internet.