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CLIC Slams BDAC Composition, State Model Code

The small number of local officials on the FCC Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee “has unsurprisingly resulted in BDAC recommendations that would undercut the important potential of local governments to help improve and accelerate broadband access and availability throughout the nation,”…

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said Coalition for Local Internet Choice CEO Joanne Hovis and President James Baller in a Thursday letter to FCC commissioners. The BDAC’s model state code especially hurts broadband deployment, the CLIC officials said. Appointing another local official after two resigned (see 1804090013), they said, “does not come close to addressing the stark imbalance in the composition of the BDAC.”