Alaska Carriers Report Progress on Addressing USF
Representatives of Alaska-based telcos explained the “Alaska Plan” with recommendations for future universal service support for Alaska’s rate of return and competitive providers, in a meeting with FCC officials, including an aide to Chairman Tom Wheeler. “We discussed the challenge…
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Chairman Wheeler made to the Alaska carriers during his visit to the state late last year to work to see if a plan could be developed to meet the needs of Alaska’s telecom providers,” a filing about the meeting said. “We described how the Alaska Plan was developed to meet the Chairman’s challenge and noted that a model-based approach was evaluated but ultimately rejected because it is extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible to adapt a model to Alaska’s unique conditions.” The Alaska Telephone Association made the ex parte filing Thursday in docket 10-90.