Ending the Disparity
Steve Goodman has been practicing telecommunications law since 1983, when he began working at the Federal Communications Commission. He now represents a wide variety of clients, including telecommunications equipment manufacturers, satellite service providers and international carriers.
"The Reason for the Broadband Gap is not Rocket Science - but Maybe solving it is"
There is a broadband gap in this country. According to the latest FCC broadband deployment report, as of year-end 2016: "Approximately ninety-two percent of the population has access to both fixed terrestrial services at twenty-five megabits per second/three megabits per second, and mobile LTE at speeds of five megabits per second/one megabit per second. In rural areas, 68.6% of Americans have access to both services, as opposed to 97.9% of Americans in urban areas."