The FCC should allocate the “maximum possible amount...

The FCC should allocate the “maximum possible amount of funding” for rural broadband experiments, the Rural Broadband Policy Group told an aide to Chairman Tom Wheeler last week, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1mIPwTM). The group expressed “concern” over the proposed net neutrality rules: Rural communities want “the full Internet” and not a pay-to-play “hand-me-down.” The FCC should not “break the Internet before rural America gets it,” the group said, recommending reclassification of broadband as a Title II common carrier service.