The “dust has not even started to settle” on the...
The “dust has not even started to settle” on the “sweeping reforms” adopted in the USF/intercarrier compensation order, and the FCC should answer the many pending questions carriers have with respect to implementation before making additional changes, the NTCA told…
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an advisor to Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bm4g9j). NTCA also expressed concern with rural call completion issues, urging the FCC to take action. “These problems are unlikely to be resolved unless and until a provider that has failed materially and repeatedly to route calls to destinations as sought by originating callers faces some consequence for such failures,” the association said. Its representatives also met with Wireline Bureau officials Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bm4g96) to request changes to financial reporting requirements, raise concerns about conditions needed to be met to grant waiver requests, and discuss the “inequitable and improper” elimination of safety net additive support for carriers which deployed broadband-capable networks in 2010 and 2011. NTCA reiterated its continuing concern about the use of a regression analysis to establish caps on USF-supported capital and operating expenses.