UScellular CEO Meets With Simington on 5G Fund, C Band
The FCC should do “additional fact-finding and rulemaking to update the criteria for the 5G Fund and maximize its efficiency in bringing high-speed mobile broadband connectivity to rural Americans,” UScellular CEO Laurent Therivel said in a call with Commissioner Nathan…
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Simington. “UScellular recommended that the FCC review the timing of the 5G Fund to take advantage of the fiber density that will be created by the [broadband, equity, access and deployment] program, and modernize the eligibility threshold to ensure that Americans are not stranded as technology continues to improve,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 18-122. The carrier also discussed “its current C-band coordination efforts with the FAA and emphasized the importance of being able to deploy this spectrum in a timely manner to help cure the Digital Divide in rural areas,” UScellular said.