Senators Rubio and Booker should be commended for recognizing that the U.S. faces both an unprecedented 'wireless data crunch' and a 'digital divide' that puts lower-income Americans at a disadvantage.
Adelstein praises Rubio and Booker for addressing wireless issues and inequality.
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5G, of all the technologies, is the most important of those to get us to that goal.
Our goal is to serve the most remote rural areas, to get the funds to those places that have no service or inadequate service.
I do not believe they have. As a matter of fact, I am the former Administrator myself of a Federal agency, and if I had implemented something so poorly that Congress instructed me to do, I would be embarrassed, frankly.
I think that Mayor Resnick is exactly right, there is a major role for localities in making sure that their consumers' needs are met.