NTCA hasn’t backed away from its joint universal service reform plan...
NTCA hasn’t backed away from its joint universal service reform plan that it forged with other rural associations earlier this year, but its decision to file a complementary letter to the USTelecom-brokered agreement “was premised upon a delicate balance of…
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interests and difficult trade-offs,” the group said in a meeting with Margaret McCarthy, aide to Commissioner Michael Copps. That said, “any material changes to the modified RLEC Plan, any attempts to blend or import any concepts from the separate and distinct ‘America’s Broadband Connectivity’ proposal into the RLEC Plan, or the conversion of any budget targets for small rural carriers into caps imposed by rule would harm small rural providers who had already taken significant steps to enable the consensus framework and likely lead to the collapse of this carefully balanced compromise,” NTCA told McCarthy, according to an ex parte notice filed on docket 10-90.