The Federal Communications Commission has committed to improving broadband access, both wireline and wireless, to at least 245,000 Alaska residents over the next 10 years. But in a rare move, two FCC commissioners who often face off on opposite sides of discussions around telecom regulation, Ajit Pai and Mignon Clyburn, both dissented over the new Order.
“…the Alaska Plan does little to address the very real middle-mile problem” in the state, said Clyburn in a dissenting opinion written after the order passed this week.
