International Trade Today is a service of Warren Communications News.

Telecommunications infrastructure in rural America could deterior...

Telecommunications infrastructure in rural America could deteriorate unless the Universal Service Fund is overhauled to reduce growing payments to competitive eligible telecom carriers, said McLean & Brown. The consultants wrote and paid for the study, publicized by the Coalition…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.

to Keep America Connected, a rural telecom group backing a cap on payments to CETCs, which mainly are rural wireless providers. “Payments to CETCs have skyrocketed, growing by more than 1,000 percent in the past six years,” said the coalition. The report concluded that USF growth as a result of increases in the number of CETCs renders “the existing system unsustainable.”