Rural telcos opened their Washington blitz this week and pressed...
Rural telcos opened their Washington blitz this week and pressed their case to protect Universal Service Fund revenue, ex parte notices filed in FCC docket 10-90 showed. In a meeting Thursday with Chairman Julius Genachowski’s aide Zac Katz, rural executives…
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and leaders from their associations promoted their own reform proposals, said an ex parte notice. In a separate meeting with Christine Kurth, aide to Commissioner Robert McDowell, rural executives said their companies need “predictable and sufficient high-cost support and [intercarrier compensation] revenue streams” to “repay their outstanding Rural Utilities Service and private sector loans,” rural telco executives and members of the Western Telecommunications Alliance said. Rural carriers have promised to blitz the Capitol to protect their USF revenue.