CTIA met with Wireline Bureau Chief Tom Navin to recommend how to...
CTIA met with Wireline Bureau Chief Tom Navin to recommend how to address the distribution side of Universal Service Fund (USF) reform. CTIA said high-cost support should be based on “one mechanism that calculates support based on the most…
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efficient technology,” though wireless carriers are willing to explore other possibilities, including reverse auctions. CTIA pointed out that while support for wireless carriers has grown significantly wireline support is climbing more rapidly. “From 2000 to 2005, incumbent local exchange carriers accounted for roughly 2/3rds of growth in the size of the high-cost universal service mechanisms,” CTIA said. “In fact, incumbent LECs continue to receive roughly 80% of federal high-cost universal service support, even though there are now more mobile wireless subscribers than wireline switched access lines.”