{"id":113854,"date":"2019-02-23T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T12:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=113854"},"modified":"2019-02-23T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T12:46:48","slug":"latta-americans-without-broadband-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/02\/23\/latta-americans-without-broadband-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta: Americans without broadband down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) is highlighting a draft Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report that shows significant progress made in the last year to narrow the \u201cdigital divide\u201d and improve access to high-speed broadband.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The draft 2019 Broadband Deployment Report, which was circulated by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai this past week, shows that the number of Americans lacking access to a fixed broadband connection meeting the FCC\u2019s benchmark speeds has fallen by 25 percent &#8212; from 26.1 million people at the end of 2016 to 19.4 million by the end of 2017. The draft report is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/draft-fcc-broadband-report-digital-divide-narrowing-substantially\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClosing the \u2018digital divide\u2019 is one of my top priorities as Republican leader on the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, and this report shows that efforts to reduce regulatory burdens and support investment are helping more Americans gain access to high-speed broadband,\u201d said Latta. \u201cAccording to the report, the number of Americans lacking access to fixed high-speed connections dropped by 25 percent, with a majority of those 5.6 million people living in rural areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRepresenting a number of rural areas, I know the difference that this will make in family homes and for businesses on Main Street in these communities,\u201d Latta added. \u201cAt the same time, there\u2019s still more work to be done at the FCC and in Congress to make access to high-speed Internet a reality for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) is highlighting a draft Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report that shows significant progress made in the last year to narrow the \u201cdigital divide\u201d and improve access to high-speed broadband.&nbsp; The draft 2019 Broadband Deployment Report, which was circulated by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai this past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 12:56:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}