FCC Needs to Wrap Up Mobility Fund II Rules, AT&T Says
The FCC needs to finalize rules for the Mobility Fund II program and move it “forward with deliberate speed,” Joan Marsh, AT&T senior vice president-federal regulatory, blogged Wednesday. Commissioners are expected to approve the item Thursday (see 1707310063). The current…
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program disburses almost $500 million per year and was to be phased out by 2016, Marsh wrote: “The FCC has found that more than $300 million/year of this support goes to wireless carriers to provide service in areas where one or more competitors are also providing service without subsidy. In other words, those dollars are not supporting any incremental service to rural consumers.” A fix is needed and the FCC gets the balance right in the item, she said: Inaction “simply delays the promise of mobile broadband service to communities without such service today.”