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US | FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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FCC Republicans kill funding for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and Wi-Fi on school buses.

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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Carr said that Congress temporarily authorized the hotspot program during the pandemic, and the FCC didn't have authority to bring it back when the congressional authorization expired.

Gomez disputed Carr's legal argument, saying that "Congress gave the FCC permission to expand the applications of E-Rate funding as the technologies used to educate children evolve." She pointed out that the Universal Service law says the FCC may designate additional services for support. Gomez continued:

When the E-Rate program was implemented, dial-up Internet was the standard, and today, September 30th, 2025, AOL is discontinuing dial-up service. It is safe to say the landscape of communications technology has changed dramatically throughout the life of the E-Rate program. As underscored during my visit to the High School for Environmental Studies in New York a couple of weeks ago, students are now using Chromebooks in classrooms on a regular basis, and they are expected to submit homework assignments online using platforms like Google classroom. These changes are made possible with support from E-Rate funding.

Yet George W. Bush did that for bookmobiles so we know Carr is full of shit.