Current FCC support levels allocated for Phase II of the...
Current FCC support levels allocated for Phase II of the USF Mobility Fund are “inadequate to achieve vital universal service goals,” and the agency should use a further rulemaking notice “to make additional funding available to competitive wireless providers,” the…
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Rural Cellular Association said in a filing. The commission could reallocate “support foregone by price cap carriers that decline to exercise their statewide right of first refusal” to the Mobility Fund, RCA suggested (http://xrl.us/bm5sbp). “RCA further argued that the Commission should free up additional funds to support mobile wireless services by eliminating excessive support flowing to rural incumbent LECs, including by lowering the prescribed rate of return and limiting permissible recovery levels for capital and operating expenses."