WISPs Meet Carr Aide on Non-Spectrum Issues
The Wireless ISP Association reported Wednesday on a meeting with an aide to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr about non-spectrum issues. The commission should “ensure that additional data collection and reporting burdens are not imposed on smaller providers” and “permanently eliminate…
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the requirement that a licensed professional engineer” certify broadband data collection submissions, WISPA said in a filing in 10-90 and other dockets. WISPs urged the FCC not to adopt proposals in a Further NPRM on broadband consumer labels. “Existing requirements are sufficient to allow consumers to compare broadband options,” and proposals in the notice “would impose unnecessary burdens on broadband providers,” it said. The group also said all broadband providers “should have access to utility poles and public rights-of-way [at] neutral and non-discriminatory rates and terms on par with telecommunications and cable services.”