NARUC Blasts Bypass of ETC Designations in Broadband Benefit Extension
NARUC criticized language in the Senate-passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (HR-3684) that would extend and expand the emergency broadband benefit. The measure, which the Senate advanced Tuesday (see 2108100062), gives the FCC $14.2 billion for EBB, to be renamed…
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the Affordable Connectivity Fund. “The new broadband benefit ignores critical protections for consumers and for the program itself by extending the partial bypass of the Eligible Telecommunication Carrier designation process, which also bypasses many states that are both interested in and able to protect program beneficiaries,” NARUC said Thursday. “Unfortunately, the industry voices that aimed to avoid oversight carried more weight than NARUC’s concern for sound, reasonable protections for the public.”