The FCC should focus on revenue as it overhauls the...
The FCC should focus on revenue as it overhauls the Universal Service Fund’s contribution regime, NTCA told an eighth-floor adviser. The group met with an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. The rural advocates said “a revenues-based contributions mechanism is technologically…
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neutral and best captures the value that consumers place on competing services that use underlying networks without regard to the specific technology used to deliver the service,” according to the ex parte notice, which was published Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bmofgk). Revenue-based reform also helps consumers balance the “different service offerings” with their evolving needs and is “the most equitable means of sharing responsibility across network users,” the association said. “NTCA noted that a revenues-based contributions mechanism can be implemented quickly with little burden to providers or the industry (since billing systems are already designed for revenues-based assessments), and that an expanded revenues-based mechanism would stabilize the contributions system."