Problems with the universal service fund and intercarrier compensation are...
Problems with the universal service fund and intercarrier compensation are “inextricably related,” so the FCC ought to focus on simultaneous reforms on the two matters, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association urged in recent meetings, according to an ex parte…
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filing published late Thursday. The commission should use broadband data to “inform” its USF disbursements, “immediately adopt” proposals from the National Broadband Plan that would cap USF, eliminate high-cost support for competitive eligible telecommunications carriers, set “a low, uniform terminating rate for all traffic” and be careful to limit access replacement in high-cost support “to areas where it is actually necessary,” the association said in its ex parte. “Any new rules” for intercarrier compensation “should account for the transition to an all-IP world,” NCTA added in its filing.