Members of the Rural Alliance urged FCC staff to tread carefully ...
Members of the Rural Alliance urged FCC staff to tread carefully in lessening regulation of wireline broadband services so it doesn’t “inadvertently” harm universal service or intercarrier compensation. Among other things, the FCC should “take measures to ensure that…
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the universal service funding mechanism is not… adversely impacted,” the group said in a July 29 ex parte filing describing a meeting with FCC staff the day before. “All services, including broadband services, that utilize the communications infrastructure should continue to pay for the use of that infrastructure,” the alliance said: “Irrespective of the technology used to provide broadband service, and regardless of whether the service is offered as a telecommunications service or an information service, the contribution obligation to universal service should not be affected.”