The FCC is taking rural call completion problems...
The FCC is taking rural call completion problems “very seriously,” acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn told Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., in a letter the FCC released Friday (http://bit.ly/1dADKU4). The letter was dated Aug. 1 and replied to concerns Leahy raised…
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in an April 25 letter to former Chairman Julius Genachowski, which the FCC posted Thursday (http://bit.ly/154184S). “The Commission is committed to ensuring reliable telephone service for consumers and businesses in rural America,” Clyburn wrote, describing “multiple fronts” of approach. She attached a letter from the FCC Wireline Bureau chief as well as a recent enforcement advisory. Completion problems in Vermont were increasing, Leahy had warned Genachowski. “Call completion problems harm Vermont businesses, and, generally, the quality of life of all rural Americans,” Leahy wrote. “They also harm rural telephone companies, which are often erroneously blamed by consumers for these problems.” He commended FCC action on the issue and urged it to “act swiftly” against any companies breaking the rules.