CCA Warns of Rip-and-Replace Delays
Competitive Carriers Association representatives met with FCC Wireline Bureau staff on delays small carriers face in receiving reimbursement through the FCC’s Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program (see 2311160063). CCA members noted that “circumstances, technology, and pricing have changed…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
since their original Reimbursement Program applications were filed,” said a filing Friday in docket 18-89: “Programmatic delays are causing significant financial and business hardships. Participants are being forced to refrain from scheduling more project work pending reimbursements, diverting resources from other projects while waiting for reimbursements, withholding or staggering modification requests in an inefficient way to allow some reimbursements to be completed, and incurring significant non-reimbursable financing costs while waiting for reimbursements.”