CTIA and USTelecom called on the FCC to act on...
CTIA and USTelecom called on the FCC to act on their request for clarification and reconsider, or alternatively waive, broadband reporting requirements for eligible telecommunications carriers under the Commission’s USF/intercarrier comp transformation order. “Specifically, the Commission should limit the obligation…
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to file relevant broadband performance data and to prepare five-year service quality improvement plans and associated progress reports to those ETCs receiving Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II support; ETCs whose universal service support is being eliminated or that receive CAF Phase I support or Phase II Mobility Fund support should not be subject to such obligations,” the groups said in reply comments to the FCC (http://xrl.us/bnmsgs). “The Commission also should eliminate any requirement that an ETC certify that ‘frozen’ Interstate Access Support (IAS) was used, at least in part, for broadband deployment (or actually use IAS support for this purpose) -- a certification that cannot be reconciled with the Commission’s rules which require that IAS support be used for interstate access rate reductions.” CTIA and USTelecom noted that in the initial comment round, all agreed the reporting requirements are “ambiguous and confusing.” Also, “there is universal concurrence among commenters that extending broadband reporting requirements to ETCs whose universal service support is being eliminated would be ‘inappropriate,’ ‘unnecessary,’ and ‘unduly burdensome,'” they said.