A telecommunications committee is being established by the Gloucester County Administrator to serve in an advisory capacity to county administration, according to a release from Gloucester Community Engagement.

The committee will work with staff to review and advise on issues related to cable services, telecommunications, broadband (wireline and wireless), local telecommunication infrastructure (towers, mini cells, etc.) and help promote local government and school public programming on the public access channels.  

The committee will consider and advise the County Administrator on telecommunications and cable services; cable franchises; customer service and subscriber complaints on grantee services and operations;  telecommunications infrastructure; use of public rights-of-way by communication providers; ways to expand Internet and broadband services to underserved areas of the county; and identifying new telecommunication services, emerging technologies and opportuni...