5G will NOT bridge the digital divide. In fact, it will deepen the digital divide.
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“While Internet service providers like Comcast and Charter are largely to blame for Internet inequality in parts of the country, the FCC is making things worse by siding with private corporations at the expense of millions of Americans who lack access to what has become a vital tool for everyday life.”
Get the facts about 5G and the digital divide:
- Exploring Racial Equity and Social Justice Impacts of Cell Towers and ZTA 19-07 – Tech Wise – Montgomery County, MD
- Myth Fact on 5G TESTIMONY OF ANGELA SIEFER Executive Director of the National Digital Inclusion Alliance to the United States House of Representatives
- Simone Biles
- Verizon’s 5G Promise Rings Hollow in Sacramento and Next Generation Wireless That Works for All of Us, by the Communications Workers of America
- Sacramento Bee, To end digital discrimination, California can’t let big telecom companies call the shots, July 28, 2021
- CNET, The broadband gap’s dirty secret: Redlining still exists in digital form, June 28, 2021
- Theodora Scarato Montgomery County needs affordable broadband, not 5G cell towers, to bridge the digital divide, Montgomery Sentinel, July 10, 2021
- US Government Accountability Office 2020 Report: Experts Warn That 5G Deployment Would Likely Widen the Digital Divide
- June 2020 Report: “FCC Lacks Comprehensive Strategic Planning to Guide Spectrum Policy for 5G Deployment”
- “The drive to widen the digital divide,” published in California Matters by Larry Ortega, founder of Community Union Inc., a nonprofit corporation that trains consumers living in the digital divide.
https://ehtrust.org/the-fcc-undue-corporate-influence-digital-heroin-and-why-5g-wont-bridge-the-digital-divide/ Source: Environmental Health Trust
