RLECs Push Pai for FCC Actions to Make USF Support Predictable, Sufficient
Rural telco groups urged FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and aides to bolster USF support mechanisms for high-cost rural areas. NTCA, ITTA, USTelecom and WTA officials asked the commission to address USF "sufficiency and predictability" concerns by year-end, including by adopting…
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their proposals to increase funding for rate-of-return carriers (see 1810010045), said a filing posted Thursday in docket 10-90 on meeting Pai aides. "NTCA noted the overwhelming support from stakeholders ... and among policymakers generally for longer-term funding to promote universal service in rural areas," in a meeting CEO Shirley Bloomfield and Senior Vice President Mike Romano had with Pai and an aide. "Adopt and implement a straightforward set of reforms ... for each of the already-existing USF mechanisms," NTCA recommended. It sought action on an "outdated rate floor policy."