Broadband Internet access providers ‘over all platforms’ should c...
Broadband Internet access providers “over all platforms” should contribute to the Universal Service Fund, 3 groups representing rural telecom companies told the FCC in an Aug. 4 ex parte. A recent FCC vote to raise the safe harbor for…
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wireless USF contributions and to add VoIP providers to the USF contributions pool was “positive and necessary” but not enough to assure the fund’s “sustainability,” OPASTCO, the Independent Telephone & Telecom Alliance and Western Telecom Alliance said Aug. 4. As of Aug. 14, facilities-based DSL providers operating as non-common carriers no longer must contribute. Wireless and VoIP contributions might offset this drop in contributions, but “there is no assurance this will occur,” the groups said.