STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER BRENDAN CARR
Re: Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. 10-90; Universal Service Reform – Mobility Fund, WT 
Docket No. 10-208
The United States has led the world in the deployment of 4G wireless technologies.  But there are 
still too many communities that lack access to high-speed wireless service.  This is particularly so in rural 
America, where sparse populations and challenging terrain drive up the cost of deployment.  The FCC has 
been committed to closing this digital divide and ensuring that everyone has access to the opportunities 
that broadband enables.       
In my mind, there are at least two key pieces to addressing this issue.
First, we must continue to target support from the Universal Service Fund to unserved areas of 
the country.  We do that today by resolving some of the last issues that have stood in the way of 
commencing the Mobility Fund Phase II Auction, which will target up to $4.53 billion over ten years to 
bring 4G LTE to rural and other high-cost communities.    
Second, we need to continue reforming our regulatory structures to drive down the cost of 
broadband deployment.  This means streamlining everything from the historic and environmental review 
procedures that apply at the federal level to ensuring that state and local regimes do not operate as barriers 
to deployment.  I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues as we make progress on those 
issues.   
Finally, I want to thank the staffs of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, the Wireline 
Competition Bureau, and the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force for their work on this item.  It has my 
support.