FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski should consider waiving limits on high-cost...
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski should consider waiving limits on high-cost universal service funds for America’s territories, said Department of Interior Assistant Secretary Anthony Babauta. Places such as American Samoa, Mariana Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico “are often hampered by their…
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remote location and the high cost of support and diffusion of basic services,” Babauta said in a letter to Genachowski, dated and released Friday. “As such, the limitation on Universal Service Funding that can be collected has an adverse impact on the amount of high-cost support that competitive eligible telecommunications carriers in insular areas have been able to collect, therefore hindering the ability to bring the insular areas on a level comparable to urban areas.”