RWA Seeks Relief for Carriers Waiting for Rip-and-Replace Funds
The Rural Wireless Association filed at the FCC a May 9 New York Times article on the plight of small carriers as they wait for Congress to fully fund the FCC's Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program. RWA asked…
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that the article be included in the record (see 2304210069). “Many rural carrier participants, including Pine Belt, as mentioned in the article, are struggling to continue to provide adequate service to their customers as they attempt to rip out their unsecure equipment and install new equipment with limited funding,” RWA said in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 18-89. RWA asked the commission to “grant all Reimbursement Program participants the blanket six-month extension of the one-year completion deadline as affected companies work diligently to complete this effort with limited time.”