The FCC should match funds to its “specific broadband objectives”...
The FCC should match funds to its “specific broadband objectives” as the commission moves ahead with Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation reform, USTelecom and other telcos said in a meeting with commission staff. Windstream’s Michael Rhoda and Eric Einhorn,…
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AT&T’s Joel Lubin, Verizon’s Maggie McCready and USTelecom’s Jonathan Banks met with staff Thursday, according to Banks’ ex parte notice. It was posted Tuesday to docket 10-90. “We discussed the need for a fund designed to support explicitly the delivery of broadband and voice services in high-cost areas as efficiently as possible and stressed the importance of matching funding with the specific broadband objectives that would be contemplated by such a fund,” the filing said. While the lobbyists recognize the need for “careful transitions” to a broadband fund, “relatively rapid movement to reform … would help provide certainty to industry,” it said.