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Representatives of wireline and cable companies met with FCC Office of...

Representatives of wireline and cable companies met with FCC Office of Engineering and Technology officials to ask how much of a part fixed-wireless and satellite-broadband providers will play in the FCC’s hardware-based fixed-broadband performance testing program, run by SamKnows. The…

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company representatives “expressed our joint position that fixed wireless and satellite broadband providers should be included in the SamKnows testing program,” said an ex parte letter. “We observed that exclusion of whole segments of the fixed broadband provider community could undermine the ‘proof of concept’ that SamKnows was tasked to achieve.” Attending the meeting were representatives of USTelecom, Windstream, CenturyLink, NCTA, Qwest and Frontier.