CCA Encourages FCC to Revise Data Collection for Mobility Fund Auction
The FCC should "reform its data collection process which determines what areas of the country are eligible to receive funding" in its planned mobility fund auction, the Competitive Carriers Association said in a filing posted Friday in docket 10-208 on…
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meetings with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and Wireline Bureau staffers. CCA also said the FCC "should implement a tiered phase down period" for USF legacy support "over several years." The group "understands the Commission plans to phase down legacy support immediately in certain areas not eligible for the reverse auction, which will have the effect of eliminating competition and widen the digital divide," it said. AT&T, Atlantic Tele-Network and Buffalo-Lake Erie Wireless Systems offered a revised, detailed joint proposal Thursday for the mobility fund auction that would target subsidies for areas without 4G LTE service. The parties met with FCC staff to discuss the proposal, according to a filing posted Friday. A mobility fund auction order is tentatively set for consideration at the Feb. 23 commissioners' meeting.