NASUCA Backs Accelerating Broadband Connectivity Act
The National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates joined NARUC Thursday in backing (see 2007090051) the Accelerating Broadband Connectivity Act (S-4021) and criticizing the rival Rural Broadband Acceleration Act (HR-7447/S-4201). S-4021 would allocate $6 billion to an FCC-run Accelerating Broadband…
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Connectivity Fund that would provide money to Rural Digital Opportunity Fund phases I and II awardees that commit to begin speedy construction and service (see 2006220059). HR-7447/S-4201 would require the FCC to award funding by Sept. 30 to some RDOF Phase I applicants and eliminate a requirement companies be designated eligible telecom carriers (see 2006300010). S-4021 “is best designed to ensure that auction winners continue to offer Federal, and, where available State, subsidies for Lifeline service for qualifying low-income individuals,” said NASUCA President Jackie Roberts and Executive Director David Springe in a letter to lead sponsor Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. They said ETC requirement elimination “would be a significant departure from the existing statutory structure, would weaken consumer protections, and likely undermine complementary state programs.”