The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition have done a comparison of Clinton’s and Trump’s broadband policies:
While I love the graphic – I’m going to type out the high level text too – for anyone using assistive technology and because I like text.
Clinton’s policies
- Connect 100 percent of household to affordable broadband by 2020.
- Connect more anchor institutions
- Continue investment in CAF, RUS and BTOP
- Back the FCC’s decision to extend Lifeline to broadband
- Invest $250 billion in infrastructure as well as establish a $25 billion infrastructure ban to provide grants
- Deploy 5G wireless
- Reallocate and repurpose spectrum
- Foster a civic Internet of Things though public investment
Trump’s policies
- Create a business climate that rewards risk and promotes innovation
- Challenge legacy forms of business
- Give innovators the freedom to create
- Facilitate access to spectrum
- Create public policy for competition essential for an Internet of Things to thrive
- Ensure that governments keep pace with technology deployed in private sector
- Encourage public-private partnerships
