Paging company USA Mobility told the FCC in an ex parte letter an...
Paging company USA Mobility told the FCC in an ex parte letter any changes in assessing USF fees mustn’t mean a bigger burden for the sector. Paging firms make “relatively little use of the PSTN” with paging calls from…
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phones transferred to the paging network after an average of 10 sec., it said. Many of its clients are health and emergency workers or “critical to the nation’s safety and security,” the firm said. “Under current revenue-based methods, paging carriers incur roughly $.07 to $.10 per customer per month on average in federal USF payment obligations,” USA Mobility said. “Should the FCC adopt a per-line or per-number methodology, any fees imposed on paging carriers ought to be comparable in size to this current amount… Any sum that is higher will be difficult for USA Mobility to pass through to its customers, or, to absorb should its customers refuse to pay that increased fee.”