<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass">Far more happening in the U.S., thanks to far more leadership from the bottom up:</div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass"><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><font color="#0068da" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 104, 218);" class=""><u class=""><a href="https://blandinonbroadband.org/2021/06/28/172-organizations-call-on-congress-to-increase-broadband-speeds-with-future-proof-fiber/" class="">https://blandinonbroadband.org/2021/06/28/172-organizations-call-on-congress-to-increase-broadband-speeds-with-future-proof-fiber/</a></u></span></font><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">Institute for Self Reliance<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://ilsr.org" class="">https://ilsr.org</a></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">Fiber Broadband Association<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.fiberbroadband.org" class="">https://www.fiberbroadband.org</a></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">Broadband Communities<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.bbcmag.com" class="">https://www.bbcmag.com</a></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">Coalition for Local Internet Choice<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://www.localnetchoice.org" class="">http://www.localnetchoice.org</a></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">Blandin Foundation<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://blandinfoundation.org" class="">https://blandinfoundation.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">And many more at state and local levels. </div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass"><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass">A rich and increasingly effective ecosystem for advancing connectivity, for the benefit of the end user rather than investor-owned network owners and operators. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: none; color: inherit; padding: inherit; margin: inherit;" class="">JvL</blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style: none; color: inherit; padding: inherit; margin: inherit;" class=""></blockquote></div></body></html>