Give CAF-BLS Recipients More Time to Prep for Pretesting: NTCA
Give Connect America Fund broadband loop support recipients a "more reasonable period of time for commencement of pre-testing obligations" for non-high-cost universal broadband locations provided to carriers by the Universal Service Administrative Co. in December, NTCA told an aide to…
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FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, per a filing Monday in docket 10-90. The group said individual or combined waiver requests should be allowed as an alternative. A "significant proportion of companies" didn't receive USAC's survey that would determine carrier's deployment data reporting status, NTCA said, and some have expressed concerns about meeting their pretest obligations.