WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Six Michigan members of Congress, including Congressman Jack Bergman, are urging the Federal Communications Commission to improve the accuracy of broadband availability maps.
The group sent a letter to FCC chairman Ajit Pai, saying the scattered, lacking landscape of broadband availability in rural regions is worse than it appears on the FCC’s broadband maps. Bergman says that jeopardizes broadband infrastructure funding for areas that critically need it.
The letter says the FCC needs to develop a validated set of data based upon standardized methods of granular reporting so constituents aren’t left behind in the 21st century digital economy.
Representatives Tim Walberg, Paul Mitchell, Bill Huizenga, John Moolenaar and Elissa Slotkin also signed the letter.
