Tying Universal Service Fund support levels to cost models that...
Tying Universal Service Fund support levels to cost models that don’t take satellite broadband into account “severely inflates” the support required to reach the 7 million targeted households, Hughes Network Systems said in a meeting with the FCC’s Wireline, Wireless…
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and International bureaus. That inflation aggravates “the subsidization of inefficient terrestrial build-out,” the company said in a presentation. Hughes said satellite broadband shouldn’t be included in revised USF, since it already offers nationwide service without support. Requiring satellite broadband providers to contribute for the service would be unfair because it would be paying for competing companies’ terrestrial buildout, it said.