RWA Urges Blanket Extension of Rip-and-Replace Deadline
Rural Wireless Association representatives urged a blanket six-month extension of the one-year completion deadline for removing unsecure gear from networks, in a meeting with an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. Congress has been looking at whether to more fully…
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fund the program, addressing the $3.08 billion Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program funding shortfall (see 2308070001). “RWA discussed the dire need to obtain full funding from Congress and how it is now causing participants to seek extensions of the one-year completion deadline,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 18-89: “RWA urged the FCC to continue to press Congress on this issue as it is becoming increasingly difficult for program participants to complete their removal, replacement, and destruction of covered equipment with only 40% of the funds required, especially as RWA members have no assurance that additional funds will ever come.”