Rural telecom associations want more, not less support to deploy...
Rural telecom associations want more, not less support to deploy broadband, said joint comments filed Wednesday by OPASTCO, the National Exchange Carrier Association, NTCA and Western Telecom Alliance. FCC efforts so far on Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation mechanisms…
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for rural LECs “have consisted entirely of caps, cuts and phase-outs to cost recovery components,” they said. At minimum, they said the FCC should provide USF support for standalone broadband, middle-mile costs and conversions to IP-enabled switching.