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For Immediate Release






Commissioner Carr to Visit Ohio with Congressman Latta
Focus on FCC Support for COVID Response, Telehealth, and Remote Learning

WASHINGTON, DC, September 3, 2020—Today, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr will visit Ohio for events focused on the FCC’s role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.  He will visit a number of sites with Congressman Bob Latta, Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee.

Carr will first join Rep. Latta in Defiance, Ohio, with a visit to a local Internet provider that is connecting households with K-12 and college students and building public Wi-Fi hotspots pursuant to special authority granted by the FCC during the pandemic.  They’ll then visit a behavioral health facility in the Toledo area that is using FCC CARES Act funding to treat at-risk patients remotely during the pandemic using telehealth technologies.  Afterwards, they will tour a school in Perrysburg, Ohio, that has been working with Internet providers to ensure that their students can participate in remote learning while classes are taught online.


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