The FCC appears likely to take recommendations from the three...
The FCC appears likely to take recommendations from the three Universal Service Fund reform plans that were put out for public comment earlier this month but “none of these three plans were fair to, much less favorable to, terrestrial fixed…
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wireless Internet service providers,” Lariat executive Laurence “Brett” Glass said in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bk7ppq). Lariat is a wireless Internet service provider in Albany County, Wyo. But “WISPs have proven to be the most cost-effective way of reaching unserved residents,” Glass said. In other meetings, executives from Bernard Telephone, Interstate Telecom Consulting and NTCA met with Wireline Bureau staff and said pending universal service and intercarrier compensation regime reforms “will make it difficult, if not impossible, to continue to invest in the needs of its membership” (http://xrl.us/bk7ppq). Last week, NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield had a phone call with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi and plugged “the benefits of the joint reform rural plan for” reform, according to an ex parte notice (http://xrl.us/bk7ppq). Bloomfield also “discussed the importance of keeping the parameters of the reform framework of the proposed ‘America’s Broadband Connectivity Plan’ in place and explained that any changes will make it difficult to achieve industry consensus,” the notice said.