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Providing support for loops used to provide standalone...

Providing support for loops used to provide standalone broadband service “would promote and accelerate the ongoing IP evolution, and finally provide the basis for a Connect America Fund that supports broadband-capable networks that enable advanced communications and enhanced consumer choice…

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in all rural areas,” NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield told an aide to FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn Monday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/10z9HCh). The commission also needs to address ongoing concerns about uncertainty caused by the regression-based caps on high-cost loop support, and the potential for additional cuts, Bloomfield said. She also urged the commission to take swift action to “sanction publicly and forcefully” any parties that fail to properly route calls to rural areas. This would send a message that the commission’s recent enforcement action against Level 3 (CD March 13 p7) “was not a ‘one-time occurrence’ and that such conduct will indeed not be tolerated,” she said.