18-year-old Hunter Christman attends Lamar State College Orange in Texas and says where he lives is too rural for internet service. So he's been driving his 1981 Chevy Silverado to the school's parking lot to do his schoolwork.
Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democratic FCC commissioner, issued a strong dissent to the FCC report over its findings that broadband internet is being built “in a reasonable and timely fashion.”
Hunter Christman, 18, attends Lamar State College Orange and said where he lives in his hometown, Orangefield, Texas, is too rural for internet service. So he's been driving his 1981 Chevy Silverado to the school's parking lot to do his schoolwork. He could use the school lab, but he said he's trying to maintain social distance.
Hunter Christman, 18, attends Lamar State College Orange and said where he lives in his hometown, Orangefield, Texas, is too rural for internet service. So he's been driving his 1981 Chevy Silverado to the school's parking lot to do his schoolwork.Many other people are congregating around whatever Wi-Fi hot spots they can find.
"It will take time and resources to solve in the same way that it takes time for a road or a highway to be built," de Wit said."Building the internet's infrastructure takes time.""Ten jobs at the national level doesn’t seem like a lot, but 10 jobs is a lot to a community of 10,000," de Wit said.
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