Rural broadband deployment has “stalled” over the past...
Rural broadband deployment has “stalled” over the past two years due to “persistent regulatory uncertainty,” NTCA told FCC acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and her staff Thursday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/13YyXqB). Surveys of NTCA’s members have shown that nearly…
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70 percent of them had either cancelled or postponed broadband network construction projects because of uncertainty about ongoing reform efforts (CD March 9/12 p3). Even those telcos not affected today by the quantile regression analysis high-cost support caps face a “threat” of being “potentially capped in the future,” NTCA said. The association urged the commission to update and correct study area boundaries, develop a more “robust and predictable” cost model and revamp the waiver process. If anything, quantile regression caps “should be utilized as a trigger for more thorough review of carrier operations, rather than employing them to disallow support as a mechanical matter,” NTCA said.