The FCC probably won’t tackle contribution reform before the end...
The FCC probably won’t tackle contribution reform before the end of the Q1, Wireline Bureau Deputy Chief Carol Mattey told an FCBA luncheon Thursday. The National Broadband Plan called for reform by the close of this quarter, but “at this…
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point, I don’t think anybody should be looking on that timetable,” she said. Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett told the event that contribution reform will be handled “in due course,” but contribution and distribution questions “are not joined at the hip.” Each official was asked to respond from comments by broadband plan architect Blair Levin, who said that trying to handle contribution and distribution in Universal Service Fund reform would have led to political “stalemate” (CD Feb 24 p6).