CompTel asked Congress to again urge the FCC to delay Universal S...
CompTel asked Congress to again urge the FCC to delay Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation overhauls. The FCC has already delayed action on the item once. But instead of voting on an overhaul at this month’s meeting, the…
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FCC sought comment on three draft proposals. Four commissioners have said they want to vote on a revamp at the Dec. 18 meeting, but a tight comment deadline means the agency will have less than three weeks to circulate a draft order (CD Nov 13 p1). “While our initial request was for transparency, which we have now been given, I find myself making another plea for you to reach out to the Commission again and ask that they allow the time needed for thorough and carefully scrutinized comments to be submitted and reviewed,” CompTel President Matt Salmon wrote 106 members of Congress. With comments due Nov. 26 and replies Dec. 3, and Thanksgiving in between, the FCC will have only 17 days to “wade through what is expected to be hundreds of thousands of pages,” Salmon said. CompTel doesn’t “want to appear ungrateful, nor is it our intention to try to hold up the process, but rather, we ask that the commission not be so quick to act on two major reforms when there is no real urgency attached to either.”