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Tribes step up and take command
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor
RAPID CITY – Petra Wilson drew a breath of satisfaction on September 15 when the federal government reported approving 157 applications for tribal entities to take command of rural broadband internet services.
The Oglala Lakota consultant on Indian education had worked day and night all year to help her tribe and others qualify to become Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensees of their own shares of the wireless spectrum.
As a liaison between private contractors and tribal representatives, Wilson alerted and assisted officials across Indian country to take advantage of the commission’s unprecedented free offer for tribes to control much of the Educational Broadband Service in the 2.5 gigahertz (GHz) band.
For Wilson, the issue was “homework inequities” affecting reservation students. “Having access to reliable connectivity is a necessity, not a luxury anymore,” she told the Native Sun News Today. And, she said, “It’s going to give tribes control over it.”
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