Jonathan Adelstein: “Our goal is to serve the most remote rural areas, to get the funds to those places that have no service or inadequate…”

Thanks to your strong leadership to improve access to broadband in rural areas, Mr. Chairman, and that of others in Congress you have given USDA an historic opportunity in the Recovery Act.

Why not make it eligible to all technologies and let the agencies rate them?

High speed broadband is key to economic development in rural areas.

We can't afford to have regulatory drag on these investments, slowing them down.