About 30 Midwest RLECs Adjust Broadband Offerings to Cut USF Assessments
About 30 rural telcos told the FCC this past week they intend to stop offering broadband internet transmission service as separate components of their broadband internet access services. Minnesota Valley Telephone and Winthrop Telephone made filings (here and here) Friday…
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of their broadband intentions, joining other rural telcos from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa that made such filings in dockets 01-92, 14-28 and 10-90 earlier in the week. Under a Wireline Bureau clarification last June of the FCC's net neutrality and broadband reclassification order, the rate-of-return carriers said, "the revenues associated with the broadband internet access transmission would no longer be subject to the federal universal service fund assessment." FairPoint Communications made a similar move last year (see 1606280037).