The FCC can provide universal service support to promote broadban...
The FCC can provide universal service support to promote broadband deployment and adoption without classifying broadband as a Title II service, NCTA President Kyle McSlarrow said in a letter to Chairman Julius Genachowski. The commission has taken steps “to…
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extend E-rate support for services used outside the classroom and relaxed the requirement that supported broadband service be used solely for educational purposes,” McSlarrow said: The reasoning that supports these actions “also supports making universal service funds available for broadband more generally, and not solely through the E-rate program.” If the commission is able “to develop efficient, appropriately targeted programs to support broadband deployment and adoption, it has the necessary authority to adopt such programs without reclassifying broadband” as a Title II service, he said.