West Virginia Senator Puts 'Hold' On FCC Nomination Of Brendan Carr

Brendan Carr Nomination On Hold

Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV), "has placed a hold on a Republican nomination to the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) in response to the agency’s decision to pause a program that would fund wireless internet expansion in rural areas," reports THE HILL.

The hold is on Commissioner BRENDAN CARR, and happens "a week after FCC Chairman AJIT PAI announced that the agency’s Mobility Fund Phase II program would be suspended temporarily while regulators investigate whether major wireless carriers submitted false data on their coverage maps. MANCHIN said that 'inaccurate' maps are not a good enough reason to put the funds on hold."

“Last week the FCC finally recognized that their broadband maps were inaccurate,” MANCHIN said in a statement. “That’s something that I have been saying since day one. But the answer is not to put the Mobility Fund on an indefinite hold that prevents states like WEST VIRGINIA from receiving the funding they desperately need to deploy mobile broadband.”

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