North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak said...
North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak said the reasoning behind the Broadband North Dakota Initiative championed by Democratic PSC candidates Tyler Axness and Todd Reisenauer shows the candidates don’t have “a very solid understanding of the status of broadband…
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deployment in [North Dakota] or the jurisdiction of the PSC.” Axness, a state senator who’s challenging Republican Fedorchak for a spot on the PSC, had criticized its performance on telecom issues and said the Broadband North Dakota Initiative “will close the communication gap that exists in remote areas of western North Dakota” (CD Aug 29 p10). Fedorchak said in an email that “a number of business groups are looking at proposals for potential tax incentives to support additional broadband investments. I support that kind of approach. I believe the deregulation of telecom has been a big success for the innovation and advancement of this industry as evidenced by the sweeping changes in the past decade and revolution to wireless and data."