Rural Broadband

Bipartisan legislation provides regulatory predictability to the satellite industry, boosts broadband access, and ensures American space leadership WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit, alongside U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senate Commerce Committee Chairman, this week reintroduced the bipartisan Satellite and Telecommunications Streamlining (SAT)…

Northeast Kingdom Broadband held a celebration Wednesday to announce the latest funding the communications union district had received and commemorate the progress made in building out high-speed internet service across the region. A large contingent gathered at NEK Broadband’s facility in Island Pond to announce…

Massive Investment for High-Speed Internet Officially Obligated to Vermont by U.S. Department of Commerce WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Rural Development Subcommittee and member of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, today applauded the Biden-Harris Administration’s investment of over $228 million…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Commerce Committee advanced Senator Peter Welch’s (D-Vt.) amendment to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program with $7 billion, as requested in his bicameral, bipartisan Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act.  “After weeks of deadlock, we finally have progress on the effort to…

Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., speaking about the Affordable Connectivity Program, ACP, at the Shaw Library in Washington, Tuesday April 30, 2024. Advocacy groups and policymakers are pushing for Congress to fully fund the ACP, because April 2024 marks the last month of full funding. (AP…