Recovery funding for price cap carriers necessary as a result...
Recovery funding for price cap carriers necessary as a result of the plan filed by a USTelecom-organized group of carriers (CD Aug 1 p1) “will be relatively small and will fit easily within the overall budget set out in the…
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Consensus Framework.” That’s what leading members of the group told Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett and other FCC officials. The group “committed to file information showing year-by-year modeling of the transition from current USF to a reformed system focused on supporting broadband,” it said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bk97hv). “That modeling will include both the ... plan and Joint Rural Association filing as modified by the Consensus Framework.” The group “also discussed the likelihood that there are a significant number of locations without broadband service that are in areas that are not modeled as high-cost, and what solution the” plan would provide for such locations,” it said. The “plan is focused on supporting the delivery of broadband in high-cost areas and does not directly address unserved locations in areas that are not high-cost,” the filing said. The “plan would account for new service locations in areas that receive broadband support,” it said “Under the plan, new service locations within supported areas would be included in the support recipient’s broadband network obligations or through operation of the alternate technology provisions of the plan."