Officials from New York, Other Cities, Urge FCC on E-Rate Funding and Net Neutrality

A group of officials from Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco urged FCC officials last week to raise the E-rate funding cap and consider increasing E-rate’s internal connection budget for urban libraries, along with allowing flexibility for capital improvements and supporting schools and libraries in operating their own networks. The cities’ representatives also urged the FCC to adopt “the strongest possible net neutrality protections,” during their meeting with Special Counsel for External Affairs Gigi Sohn and aides to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, the cities said in an ex parte filing posted Wednesday.