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It’s “clearly inequitable” that phone companies get high-cost support from...

It’s “clearly inequitable” that phone companies get high-cost support from the Universal Service Fund in areas where cable operators Allegiance Communications and Metrocast have systems, their executives told an aide to FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, a Thursday filing recounted. The…

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American Cable Association, of which the companies are members, said in the filing that ACA wants the commission to focus on supporting broadband in unserved areas. That’s as the agency seeks to use USF money to fund broadband, in the Connect America Fund, said the filing in docket 10-90.