The House Commerce Committee’s hearing Thursday on Universal Service Fund...
The House Commerce Committee’s hearing Thursday on Universal Service Fund reform should have had a witness representing rural and regional wireless carriers, Rural Cellular Association President Steve Berry said in a statement. “Numerous studies have shown that consumers are continuing…
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to choose wireless over wireline services,” Berry said. “Neglecting to include wireless has been part of the problem in reforming USF in the past. RCA will not allow it to become a problem in the future. To date, the Wireline Competition Bureau has been given almost exclusive responsibility in the development of USF rules and policies, and that trend must be arrested. I strongly encourage Congress and the FCC to include wireless as it works to reform USF."