There’s an ongoing need for a new Connect...
There’s an ongoing need for a new Connect America Fund program tailored to rate-of-return regulated rural LECs to help them “sustain and promote technological evolution for the benefit of all rural customers,” NTCA told an aide to FCC Chairman Tom…
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Wheeler Friday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1farA1O). Such a program would be tailored for smaller company operations, would recognize the “unique challenges” associated with being a smaller network in rural areas, and wouldn’t require “complex rules changes, unpredictable shifts, or wholesale disruptions in universal service distribution,” NTCA said.