Small cable operators’ lobbying group proposed to cap the Univers...
Small cable operators’ lobbying group proposed to cap the Universal Service and the high-cost fund at their Dec. 31, 2009, levels. A new broadband fund for unserved and underserved areas should be created, said the group, the American Cable…
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Association, in comments to the FCC on the role of the USF in the National Broadband Plan. (See the separate report in this issue.) The plan “evolves and reforms Universal Service to support broadband in an efficient non-discriminatory manner where 1) one industry segment is not favored over another and 2) one technology is not favored over another,” said the filing Monday. “ACA supports the consideration of a Universal Service mechanism to fund broadband but only if it is competitively and technologically neutral and is precisely targeted to users that lack access in areas that are unserved or underserved.”