2016 US Presidential Election Likely to Have Major Impact on Broadband Expansion and Regulation

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2016 US Presidential Election Likely to Have Major Impact on Broadband Expansion and Regulation

By CircleID Reporter
October 10, 2016, 8:25 pm PDT Views: 5,085 Add Comment

“The 2016 presidential election is likely to have a major impact on how the US government tries to expand broadband deployment and how it regulates Internet service providers,” writes Jon Brodkin in Ars Technica. “[W]hile we have a pretty good idea of how a President Hillary Clinton would approach the broadband industry, there’s very little to go on when predicting broadband policy under a President Donald Trump.”

— “Clinton’s technology plan includes several initiatives designed to ‘deliver high-speed broadband to all Americans,’ and it promises to defend network neutrality rules that prevent ISPs from discriminating against online services.”

— “Republican nominee Donald Trump doesn’t seem to have any plan for increasing access to broadband, and there are indications that he would not support new consumer protection regulations.”

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