It’s a matter of simple equality: Rural America deserves access to the same reliable high-speed wireless broadband Internet services that are now being made available to urban Americans. We are a wireless nation – people everywhere depend on their mobile devices to meet safety, personal and business needs. In these challenging times, rural America cannot afford to be left behind.

Wireless Broadband for All is a grassroots coalition of advocacy groups, community leaders and elected officials working to ensure that rural citizens have access to the same high-quality wireless broadband as those in urban areas.

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A new proposal to reform the Universal Service Fund (USF) threatens to treat rural Americans as second-class citizens by denying funding for the development of high-speed wireless broadband networks in rural areas. If the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accepts this proposal, $42 billion of universal service support would be used for landline broadband, leaving just $3 billion to invest in mobile broadband over the next 10 years. That’s $14 in landline networks for every dollar invested in mobile broadband networks.

Over time, the proposal would eliminate all support for the construction of new cell sites for voice services in rural areas, leaving dead zones, jeopardizing public safety and hindering economic development.