Imposing Universal Service Fund obligations on satellite providers that don’t receive USF support...
Imposing Universal Service Fund obligations on satellite providers that don’t receive USF support isn’t a “fair or rational way” to provide broadband to remote areas, a group of satellite companies said at a meeting with the Wireline Bureau’s Telecommunications Access…
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Policy Division. Inmarsat, Iridium, Intelsat, SES World Skies, Spacenet and WildBlue representatives were at the meeting, an ex parte filing said. The satellite companies urged the bureau to “think broadly about alternative contribution methodologies,” though each would raise definition and classification questions, the filing said.