FCC's Broadband Advisory Committee Names New Members [telecom]

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Will hold first meeting next month

By John Eggerton

FCC chair Ajit Pai has named the new members of its re-chartered Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), which will hold its first meeting June 13.

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The committee's charter is to come up with recommendations for accelerating high-speed broadband deployment, arguably the FCC's prime directive coupled with the race to 5G.