CCA , RWA Question Parts of Mobility Fund II Rules
The FCC is wrong that one-time data collection required in Mobility Fund II rules have no cost, the Competitive Carriers Association said in Paperwork Reduction Act comments in docket 10-208. CCA lauded the FCC for approving the program but said…
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all regulation has costs. “To comply with the Data Collection, many competitive carriers, especially rural and regional providers, will need to invest in new data systems, provide for processing and maintenance of these systems, and expend their personnel resources,” CCA said. Many will have to use contract engineers or third-party vendors to prepare and submit the required data, it said. Rural Wireless Association officials questioned parts of the proposed rules, in meetings with commissioners and staff. RWA questioned the bureaus’ proposed use of a 1-square-kilometer grid to determine challenge areas. “In the majority of rural America, roads are situated directly on the borders of a one mile by one mile grid,” the group said. “A square kilometer grid cell could be entirely encapsulated within a square mile road grid cell, leaving no access to drive a complete single kilometer-based grid cell.” RWA said carriers shouldn’t have to submit “extraneous data parameters” to qualify for support, opposing "these proposals because challengers will waste limited time and resources recording and processing data unnecessary to determining the only MFII funding eligibility criterion -- download speed.”