More than 100 NTCA Members Lobby Capitol Hill on Universal Service, Video Issues
Scores of NTCA members spent Tuesday lobbing Capitol Hill offices on various priorities. They were in town for NTCA’s Telecom Executive Policy Summit. “After hearing yesterday from leading policymakers like FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly and FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen, followed…
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by conversations with key stakeholders from the telecom, education and public interest sectors, more than 100 NTCA members fanned out today for meetings across Capitol Hill,” NTCA Senior Vice President-Policy Michael Romano told us Tuesday. “In these meetings, NTCA members hope to convey the importance of near-term, targeted updates to essential universal service cost recovery mechanisms, the value of leveraging existing rural networks to serve critical public policy initiatives and the need to address outdated video content rules that hinder consumer choice and undermine broadband deployment and adoption.” NTCA members also joined the White House Rural Council for a meeting Tuesday to consider the Smart Rural Community Initiative, NTCA said in a news release. The event included remarks from executives heading the North Central Telephone Cooperative, Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative and Blue Valley Tele-Communications. “Expanding telecommunications is a central component of this administration's comprehensive effort to build jobs and economic security in rural America,” said Doug McKalip, White House Domestic Policy Council senior policy adviser-rural affairs, in a statement.