Communications Daily is a service of Warren Communications News.

The NTCA told FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s new wireline aide,...

The NTCA told FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai’s new wireline aide, Nicholas Degani, about “the serious problems created by the lack of transparency and predictability in the new regression analysis-based caps” on USF support, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bne4mo). NTCA…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!

told Degani that “even the vast majority” of companies unaffected, or affected slightly, “have been expressing overwhelming concern regarding their inability to plan for network investment and operations beyond the next twelve to eighteen months because of the potential volatility and indecipherable nature of the caps.” The association asked for clearer rules to help with business planning, last Thursday’s filing said. That day, NTCA filed suit in the 10th U.S. Appeals Court to block the new rules (CD July 2 p12).