Given the enormous challenge of bringing robust broadband to rural,...
Given the enormous challenge of bringing robust broadband to rural, high-cost areas, USTelecom supports combining the remaining funding from the first round of the Connect America Fund into funding for a second round in 2013, representatives told aides to FCC…
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Chairman Julius Genachowski Thursday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bn73dy). A “longer term solution” to the rural broadband challenge “depends on implementing Phase II” to distribute funding based on a cost model, USTelecom said. Funding should only be distributed in areas where there is no unsubsidized broadband service provider, it said. USTelecom also “stressed the importance of beginning a public dialogue on the benefits of reclassifying” ILECs as non-dominant.