Rural Wireless Association Makes Case for New Mobility Fund
The Rural Wireless Association said representatives were at the FCC in recent days to meet with aides to all five commissioners and staff from the Wireless and Wireline bureaus on a new mobility fund. Chairman Tom Wheeler, in a keynote…
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speech last month at the Competitive Carriers Association’s annual meeting, said he would push forward on Phase II of a mobility fund (see 1609200058). RWA “discussed its support for the creation of a mechanism that will sustain and advance the availability of mobile services in high-cost areas,” said a filing in docket 10-208. RWA also offered a short audiovisual presentation during the meetings “that highlights the importance of mobile wireless networks to precision agriculture, energy production, telehealth, and public safety in rural areas,” the group said. “The presentation also discussed the importance of these rural industries to urban America -- noting that an investment made in rural America benefits all of America.”