MMTC focuses on broadband connectivity, adoption, and affordability, as well as education and jobs, digital skills training, and business opportunities in the following nine areas:
- Rural and urban broadband connectivity and deployment, including FCC management of subsidy programs
- Telehealth
- Universal Service Fund programs – Lifeline, E-Rate, Connect America Fund, and Rural Health Care program; MMTC has proposed a new fund to enable access to capital for marginalized entrepreneurs
- Spectrum – 5G and small cell deployment, with an emphasis on the underserved
- Broadband Mapping – setting priorities to identify areas with the most limited access to broadband, with an emphasis on broadband deserts, the Black Belt, rural Hispanic settlements, and Tribal Lands
- Broadband stimulus – developing a comprehensive approach to ensuring broadband affordability for lower income families and individuals who are in need, but who are not eligible for Lifeline subsidies
- Broadband adoption – supporting initiatives that ensure access and digital literacy training for all (e.g., vouchers, subsidies, low-cost products)
- Open internet – FCC authority to support Lifeline broadband service and regulate under Title I
- Employment diversity, upskilling, digital skills training, and diverse supply chain
Learn more about our most recent work from 2018 to 2020.
- Organizations Rural Broadband Pole Attachments Letter 090420
- 26 Org Coalition Broadband Stimulus Voucher Letter 071520
- MMTC “5G Fund Supporters” Rural Broadband Comments 062520
- MMTC Press Statement – FCC Rural Tribal Lifeline Streamlining Order 061720
- MMTC Press Statement – Cong. Butterfield Expanding Opportunities for Broadband Deployment Act 061220
- 228 Organizations Broadband Stimulus Letter 042920
- MMTC-NALEO Presentation on COVID-19 and Broadband Access in Our Communities – April 2020
- 28 Organizations Lifeline Support Letter 041720
- MMTC Open Internet Amicus Brief 10.18.18
- MMTC Infrastructure Letter-09.05.18
- MMTC Press Statement Lifeline Supporters Comments 022318
- MMTC and Lifeline Supporters Comments 022118