EDITORIAL: State of the industry: ubiquitous broadband is key

Bipartisanship and infrastructure: More of the former will (hopefully) help secure more of the latter. That sums up a recurrent theme during the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' (AEM) mid-January media call to discuss the 2020 elections and what the results mean for the $288 billion equipment manufacturing industry in 2021.

Top of the list for the industry's policy priorities is infrastructure. “Passing policies that modernize U.S. infrastructure will allow our nation to address the 21^st century global economy, and that's through further investments in our nation's roads, highways, bridges, rails, ports, airports and also to deliver broadband access through all of America,” said AEM president Dennis Slater.