Telecommunications infrastructure in rural America could deterior...
Telecommunications infrastructure in rural America could deteriorate unless the Universal Service Fund is overhauled to reduce growing payments to competitive eligible telecom carriers, said McLean & Brown. The consultants wrote and paid for the study, publicized by the Coalition…
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to Keep America Connected, a rural telecom group backing a cap on payments to CETCs, which mainly are rural wireless providers. “Payments to CETCs have skyrocketed, growing by more than 1,000 percent in the past six years,” said the coalition. The report concluded that USF growth as a result of increases in the number of CETCs renders “the existing system unsustainable.”