In a 3-2 vote along party lines, the FCC approved $1 billion a year to fund Wi-Fi in classrooms for the next five years, on top of the FCCs current $2.4 billion budget. As it stands, the proposal will blow a $2.7 billion hole in E-Rates budget — one that the FCC has promised outside parties itll fill with a post-election increase in Americans phone bills, he wrote in a statement. He and Michael ORielly, the FCCs other conservative commissioner, voted against the proposal. Wheelers office says the FCC has already freed up $2 billion for 2015 and 2016, but theres been debate over whether the agency can find more money to keep the program going.
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