Wireline
Ten minority organizations urged the FCC to provide “effective relief to Puerto Rico through an insular universal support mechanism that supports wireline services,” the groups said in a letter to the agency Wednesday. The island still lags significantly behind all…
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U.S. states in telephone penetration and lacks access to basic telecom and Internet services, they said. Yet the National Broadband Plan failed to mention insular areas, they said. The FCC hasn’t adopted a funding mechanism to address the needs of high-cost non-rural insular areas like Puerto Rico since the passage of Telecom Act of 1996, they said.