RWA Asks FCC to Speed Up Rip-and-Replace Reimbursements
The Rural Wireless Association (RWA) members face long delays in receiving reimbursement through the FCC’s Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program, according to a filing posted Monday in docket 18-89. RWA asked the FCC to look for ways to…
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expedite the program. “When a modification request is submitted the entire application is locked, which halts the processing of other submitted invoices that may be unrelated to the modification request,” RWA said. Some members have been forced to take out loans and interest payments are “presumed to not be eligible for reimbursement,” the group said: “Requests for Information have been issued when there are discrepancies of less than $1.00. Some participants have expressed that rounding errors should simply be adjusted in favor of the FCC/Fund Administrator, so that they are not required to spend time and resources fixing an insignificant rounding error on invoices totaling millions of dollars.”