NTCA Says CAF Auction ETCs Must Offer Telecom Service, Urges Close Regulatory Scrutiny
NTCA wants the FCC to ensure Connect America Fund Phase II auction winners comply with eligible telecom carrier duties to offer a telecom service. Communications Act Section 214(e)(1) "indicates that only a telecommunications carrier ('TC') -- defined ... as a…
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provider of a telecommunications service ('TS') (also defined in the statute) -- can be designated as an ETC," wrote Senior Vice President Mike Romano on a meeting with an aide to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, posted Wednesday in docket 10-90: "(1) to receive USF, an entity must be an ETC; (2) to be an ETC, an entity must be a TC; and (3) to be a TC, an entity must offer a TS." The FCC (or state commission) reviewing ETC applications "cannot simply take at face value a claim that any given voice telephony service" is a telecom service, he said, seeking "a fact-specific analysis" to confirm telecom service offerings, "with detailed findings" on "tariffing or other indicators of public offering."