{"id":83312,"date":"2017-01-11T07:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=83312"},"modified":"2017-01-11T07:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:33:48","slug":"house-oks-bill-to-aid-internet-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/01\/11\/house-oks-bill-to-aid-internet-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"House OKs bill to aid Internet providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined his colleagues in\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. House of\u00a0Representatives on Tuesday to pass H.R. 288, the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, which exempts small business providers of broadband Internet access from cumbersome regulatory requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation protects these providers from the wave of regulations that accompanied the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s Open Internet Order. H.R. 288 would apply to all providers that have less than 250,000 subscribers. Latta serves as co-chair of the Rural Broadband Caucus and has advocated for policies that streamline regulations for small and rural providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall Internet providers are spending too much of their time and money complying with burdensome rules and regulations,\u201d said Latta.\u00a0\u201cNot only does this stifle job creation and make it more difficult to do business,\u00a0these regulations\u00a0also harm consumers who have less\u00a0access to affordable, reliable Internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of undermining these small providers, Congress should be empowering them to build their networks and deploy more\u00a0broadband,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) joined his colleagues in\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. House of\u00a0Representatives on Tuesday to pass H.R. 288, the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, which exempts small business providers of broadband Internet access from cumbersome regulatory requirements. The legislation protects these providers from the wave of regulations that accompanied the Federal [&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-83312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 02:24:58","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\/83312","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=83312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}