On Monday, seventeen Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee sent a letter to Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), outlining their recommendations and priorities as the agency implements the broadband programs in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Congress entrusted NTIA to administer several of the programs funded by the BIL’s $65 billion investment in broadband access, affordability, and adoption. The representatives wrote that NTIA should “ensure engagement with stakeholders at the federal and state level is ongoing as the law is implemented and should reflect the needs of the communities lacking meaningful access and adoption of high-speed broadband service.”
