New CCA Chief Briefs Starks on Group's Regulatory Priorities
New Competitive Carriers Association President Tim Donovan met with FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks to discuss the group’s advocacy goals, including fully funding a program to replace unsecure Chinese gear in U.S. networks. CCA discussed “the challenges faced due to lack…
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of full funding for” and congressional “activity and timing for a potential solution to the funding issue, and emphasized the need for full funding as soon as possible,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 18-89. CCA also stressed the importance of federal broadband infrastructure programs to members and “the dual benefits of Fixed Wireless Access and mobile services,” the filing said: “Participants discussed the need to update the 5G Fund to ensure sufficient funding and to modernize the program rules to better promote competition.” CCA emphasized “the cumulative burden on smaller and rural carriers related to recently adopted and proposed wireless carrier regulations and reporting requirements” and urged the agency “to be mindful” of the challenges smaller carriers face, the filing said