The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and 17 representatives of rural...
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association and 17 representatives of rural telcos met with FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Monday to discuss the “serious problems created by the lack of transparency and predictability in the regression analysis-based caps” on USF support, an…
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ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnqogj). The potential for future caps is “exacerbating uncertainty in the marketplace,” they said. They also asked Pai to reconsider eliminating the Safety Net Additive, which amounts to a “flash cut” despite commission promises that there won’t be any, they said. “The Commission should permit those carriers who would have qualified for SNA specifically based upon investments in 2010 and 2011 to obtain such support as part of the phase-out of that program,” they said.