Affordable Broadband Campaign Announces New Website as Group Pivots Focus to USF Reform
Affordable Broadband Campaign Announces New Website as Group Pivots Focus to USF Reform
Group Continues to Encourage Congress to Save Critical Broadband ACP Subsidy
Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2024) – Today, the Affordable Broadband Campaign (ABC) announced the launch of its official website as the group transitions to focus on a permanent solution for universal broadband access. The launch of affordablebroadbandcampaign.org celebrates months of advocacy by ABC and its partners, including hundreds of thousands of phone calls and emails to Congress to save the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and to find long-term, sustainable solutions to ensure low income families and our economy reap the benefits that flow from sustained connectivity, including through reforms to the Universal Service Fund (USF).
“The creation of the bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program was enormously popular and proved how important universal and affordable connectivity was to communities across the country,” said ABC spokesperson Gigi Sohn. “Our campaign website will serve as a launching place for our advocacy, a repository for research reports, news items, and more as we push Congress and federal agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, NTIA, and others to make commitments towards ensuring low-income families are able to get and stay connected to broadband.”
Prior to launching a website, ABC led the Don’t Disconnect US campaign, which helped generate over 250,000 emails and calls to Congress to fund ACP and hundreds of stories in state, local, trade, and national publications.
“We launched Don’t Disconnect US in an effort to save the ACP and ensure the 23 million American households didn’t lose access to that critical internet subsidy,” said Greg Guice, Chair of the Board of ABC. “While we will continue to fight for ACP and hope that Congress advances bipartisan proposals to save the program, it is clear that the congressional appropriations process is ill-suited for funding universal access to affordable broadband. We’re here to engage a broad group of stakeholders pushing for change through sustainable solutions., including through the USF programs.”
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About the Affordable Broadband Campaign
The Affordable Broadband Campaign is a group of like-minded nonprofit, industry, civil society, and public interest groups that have come together around one issue: sustainable broadband affordability. The U.S. needs a sustainable policy solution to the problem, and the Affordable Broadband Campaign is focused on securing that through an informed, deliberate strategy of diverse engagement with stakeholders and policy advocacy at all levels of government. affordablebroadbandcampaign.org
