WISP Owner Raises CAF Concerns
The owner of Wyoming wireless ISP Lariat met aides to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Brendan Carr on objections to the Connect America Fund Phase II fixed broadband subsidy auction. Brett Glass said the FCC is planning to auction…
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off census tracts that Lariat and other WISPs serve. “Needlessly subsidizing the overbuilding of small, rural ISPs such as my own would, in fact, harm broadband deployment by driving some of us out of business,” Glass said last week in docket 10-90. The more than 5,000 U.S. WISPs “would be unduly burdened by the redundant task of becoming telephone companies, arranging interconnection, filling out the vast amount of additional paperwork required to become a 19th Century-style telephone company, and spending thousands of dollars per year to conform to the regulatory requirements applicable to such companies when so many good alternatives already existed,” he said.