Olympia Snowe: “The burden is on the small business community, frankly. And it is a disproportionate burden.”

Due in no small part to the leadership of Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, the E-Rate program from its inception focused on providing high-capacity transmission services to libraries and schools.

In closing, libraries are vital community technology hubs, and we simply cannot allow inadequate bandwidth to be the limiting factor for what our students and our nations can achieve.

The E-Rate program has fundamentally transformed education in this country.

By the end of this decade, I believe that every school in America should have 1 gigabit of connectivity.