RWA Says FCC Should Move Quicker to Allocate Limited Rip-and-Replace Funds
The Rural Wireless Association criticized the FCC for moving too slowly to implement a program to rip and replace nonsecure Chinese gear in small carrier networks. In a new report to Congress, the FCC said it has approved reimbursement claims…
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of about $41 million of the $1.85 billion budgeted for the program so far. “This slow-moving effort, demonstrated by the Report … has left Reimbursement Program participants, and in particular rural carriers, in a bind as they attempt to move forward through an overly burdensome administrative process with extremely limited funds,” RWA said Wednesday: “It is time that both Congress, by allocating full funding, and the FCC, in quickly administering the program, take on their responsibility to assist Reimbursement Program participants in ridding their communications networks of unsecured equipment and services that continue to pose a national security threat.” The report was posted Wednesday in docket 18-89.