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Ajit Pai, chair of the Federal
Communications
Commission,
has
announced the addition of Heather
Burnett Gold to the Broadband
Deployment Advisory Council.
Burnett Gold is president and CEO of the
Fiber Broadband Association (formerly the
Fiber to the Home Council Americas).
The Broadband Deployment Advisory
Council will advise on how to incentivize
broadband infrastructure deployment.
The group also includes Fiber Broadband
Association members Comcast, Google
Fiber, Rocket Fiber, TDS Telecom and
Cincinnati Midwest.
“The Fiber Broadband Association has
long worked to break down and reduce
regulatory barriers to fiber deployment
by educating policymakers at all levels
of government, as well as communities
directly, on how to enable and create
incentives for infrastructure deployment,”
said Gold, “We and our members look
forward to working with the chairman and
this group on developing model proposals
to propel fiber broadband deployment
across the US.”
Broadening
deployment
Heather Burnett Gold
wiredInUSA - June 2017
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