TDS Execs Urge Pai to Increase A-CAM Funding
The FCC should increase the funding cap on alternative Connect America cost model (A-CAM) support to $200 per location, TDS Telecom CEO Dave Wittwer and other executives said in a Monday meeting with Chairman Ajit Pai at the company’s headquarters…
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in Madison, Wisconsin. The TDS executives said increasing the A-CAM budget would maximize rural broadband deployment, said a Wednesday ex parte filing in docket 10-90. TDS executives supported an ITTA and USTelecom petition to ease business data service regulations for some rural telcos by allowing them to opt into recently adopted relief for price-cap carriers (see 1705250065). “This step would free model-based carriers that opt in from unnecessary regulatory burdens, such as cost studies, and provide them with the flexibility necessary to compete more vigorously in the market for business data services,” TDS said.