I think the question here is just we're talking about trying to deliver broadband services to smaller populations where carriers just aren't running to because the market is not there.
Editor's note · Context
Cantwell emphasizes the challenge of delivering broadband to underserved populations.
Share
More from Maria Cantwell
I ask our fellow Washingtonians to help this region, to be as patient as you can, to listen to what the first responders are saying because we're not out of danger yet.
The Northwest will continue to benefit from air assets, and I hope that more of them can be deployed throughout the region, as smoke allows, to help Spokane, Okanogan and all Northeast Washington counties, the Spokane and Colville Tribes…
Today, it is the top fire in our nation. That means [the federal government is] going to give us the resources that we need here on the ground.
At today’s briefing with Sec. Burgum, U.S. Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, and local fire chiefs, we discussed the next steps in responding to the fires and collecting information for a federal disaster declaration.





