More than half of rural customers are taking broadband from...
More than half of rural customers are taking broadband from providers but “regulatory uncertainty” around the FCC’s National Broadband Plan “poses a severe threat to future deployment,” the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association said in a study it released Thursday. The…
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broadband “take rate” grew from 38 percent to 55 percent from 2009-10, NTCA members said in the survey. All of the operators offer some form of broadband. All but 6 percent of survey respondents offer broadband through DSL; 68 percent have deployed fiber to the home or the curb, NTCA said. The NTCA claimed that 77 percent of its respondents identified regulatory uncertainty as a barrier to future operations. A spokeswoman said the assertion was gleaned from an “open-ended” series of questions at the end of the survey. The association sent its 2010 survey to all its telco members and 23 percent responded, the group reported. FCC officials didn’t respond to requests for comment.