# Professor Robert Seamans' recent comments on how to effectively reduce the digital divide are mentioned

1 Faculty News May 21, 2020 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2020/05/21/senate-hearing-provides-blueprint-for-bridging-the-digital-divide/#6e2034eb3283) -- "As with any policy debate, there are also areas of disagreement. For example, public interest advocates seek a greater role for municipal broadband; industry naturally pushes back on the notion of competing against entities that are not maximizing profits. Although there are competing proposals for attacking the problem—fellow Bytes contributor [Rob Seamans](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans) offered some suggestions in a recent column—one can start to see the contours of a solution to what has been up until now an intractable issue."

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