Incumbent local exchange carriers should be given the right of...
Incumbent local exchange carriers should be given the right of first refusal to accept or turn down baseline support, followed by a competitive bidding process, Debbie Goldman, Communications Workers of America’s telecommunications policy director, reported saying during a call with…
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Zac Katz, aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, discussing Universal Service Fund reform. “Providing the incumbent LEC the right-of-first refusal makes the most efficient and expeditious use of limited capital to spur broadband build-out to unserved rural areas by allowing the existing carrier to leverage its current network plant and equipment, technical and market knowledge, skilled workforce, and customer relations to expand broadband to areas already served by its voice network,” CWA said in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bmferj).