Rural Wireless Association Urges FCC to Revive Mobility Fund
Representatives of the Rural Wireless Association urged the FCC to approve a second phase of the USF Mobility Fund at $500 million per year. RWA met with aides to Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel. “RWA discussed its continued support…
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for the creation of a Mobility Fund Phase II mechanism that will provide specific, predictable, and sufficient support to sustain and advance the availability of mobile services in high-cost areas,” said a filing by the group in docket 05-265. A proposal to reduce the program to a $400 million annual amount “was predicated on estimated disbursement figures that were frozen and ratcheted down to 60 percent of the 2011 baseline,” RWA said, adding that “$400 million was not reflective of carriers’ costs then, and certainly isn’t reflective of carriers’ costs now.” Clyburn told an RWA meeting last year that the FCC should wrap up an order creating a dedicated USF mobility fund (see 1509100059).