Free Press is “blindly asserting” that “most” consumers aren’t getting the type...
Free Press is “blindly asserting” that “most” consumers aren’t getting the type of Internet service envisioned by Congress, Verizon said in reply comments on the FCC’s study of broadband deployment. On Free Press’s arguments that broadband services ought to have…
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symmetrical upstream and downstream speeds, “Free Press stretches words of the statute past the breaking point,” Verizon said. Free Press, however, said the “slowed” deployment of Verizon’s FiOS and AT&T’s U-Verse “directly contradicts the supposed extensive deployments or robust connections touted by operators in this proceeding.” The 22 members of the Blooston Rural Carriers said Verizon “fails to explain” how its proposal for a capped, incentive-based high-cost support system would work when others have failed. The “more reasonable and effective approach” is to beef up the current program, Blooston says. But Verizon said the Blooston “arguments are largely a rehash” and that USF support for broadband has to rest on what customers are paying today, “not a massive new and open-ended carrier entitlement."