FCC Awards First 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Grants in What Carr Calls Quick OK

Six COVID-19 telehealth applications were approved, including to hospital facilities in Atlanta, New York City and New Orleans, three days after the FCC Wireline Bureau began taking applications, it said Thursday (see 2004090010). Commissioner Brendan Carr, who has been a point person on this issue, cheered the quick OK.