Jessica Rosenworcel

It has been well over a year since we learned that there is a black market out there for where we are with our wireless phones.

Absolutely. It is every American household with a television set or any device connected to it.

When the Government chooses a new standard, it gives special rights to patent holders, and as a condition of those special rights it is typically required reasonable and nondiscriminatory pricing.

I agree with you, Congressman. The best reading of the 2004 Appropriations Act is that it is up to Congress to make that change and I would add that the Wall Street Journal's editorial board seems to agree.

Putting Wi-Fi on buses could be a game changer.

We need every creative idea we can right now.

We will never see 5G in rural America if we stick to that program.

We have to recognize this is not just a challenge of deployment.

We have got to get our maps accurate.

This committee told us in the appropriations legislation last year we have to find 100 megahertz of spectrum below 8 gigahertz by 2022.

We have got 9 billion devices connected to Wi-Fi and the airwaves we use for it today are crowded.

We need more Wi-Fi. The sooner the better, and the place to look is the 5.9 gigahertz band and 6 gigahertz band.

We need to bring that to a conclusion.

We have got to stop the threat to their Lifeline program. Half a million individuals in Puerto Rico rely on that program to stay connected.

Your concerns are totally valid. We have before us a proposal to cut Lifeline by 70 percent.

I don't think it's a good idea to have kids in rural classrooms fighting with telemedicine providers to get dollars for broadband.

The rest of the world is running to 5G using mid-band spectrum. We are not doing that there in the United States and we are going to be left behind.

We are going to cut off veterans, elderly, people recovering in Puerto Rico and so many other places if we cut this program as the Chairman has proposed.

We need to put some requirements in our rules and learn from these disasters to make sure these problems do not happen again.

There are people across this country that rely on Lifeline to stay connected.

We need to be up front with the American people about just what's happening.

What's going on with robocalls is insane. At the start of this administration, there were two billion a month. It's now up to more than five billion a month.

It is disturbing to learn that wireless companies were selling that data to third-parties who in turn would sell it to bail bondsmen and any other shady middlemen.

I believe there are goals, but I think when Congress writes a law and we have to respond to it, we tend to actually abide by those obligations.

I think Congress should require that we have a spectrum calendar so we identify to companies, manufacturers, bidders, when we are going to make airwaves available to market.