FCC - "INQUIRY CONCERNING DEPLOYMENT OF ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY TO ALL AMERICANS IN A REASONABLE AND TIMELY FASHION - FCC-19-102A1"
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Title: INQUIRY CONCERNING DEPLOYMENT OF ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY TO ALL AMERICANS IN A REASONABLE AND TIMELY FASHION - FCC-19-102A1 Source: FCC Data/Action: Texts Date: 10/23/2019 Text Preview: ...Disaster Affected Areas. The 2018 Report's deployment figures for the United States as
a whole excluded data from the U.S. Territories, because the 2016 data did not account for damage to
infrastructure caused by hurricanes... ...disaster-affected areas to be the most viable approach to assess our efforts and those of service
providers to improve and restore broadband networks in such areas.76 We remain uncertain as to the
current deployment of broadband services in these areas given the damage to infrastructure in Puerto Rico
and the U.S. Virgin Islands from Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017. We seek comment on whether we
should continue to report deployment in the U.S. Territories separately from the remainder of the United
States in order to assess the status of recovery in these disaster-affected... ...broadband deployment progress in disaster-affected areas that we should consider?
V. COMMISSION EFFORTS TO CLOSE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
26. We described in the 2019...