WASHINGTON — Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) reintroduced the bipartisan Rural Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Access Act to help close the rural-urban digital divide and expand access to broadband in rural parts of New Hampshire, West Virginia and across the country.

The bipartisan Rural Reasonable and Comparable Wireless Access Act of 2019 directs the Federal Communications Commission to establish a national standard for determining whether mobile and broadband services in rural areas are "reasonably comparable" to service provided in urban areas.The bill will help ensure that there is equitable wireless and broadband service in rural and urban areas, which has long be undefined.

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