Rural Telco Asks Pai to Raise Budget for USF High-Cost Fund
The FCC should increase funding for USF high-cost support, Wilson Communications CEO Brian Boisvert said in a Wednesday meeting with Chairman Ajit Pai, described in a Friday ex-parte notice in docket 10-90. Insufficient funding is undermining the effectiveness of March…
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2016 USF changes, the rural telco executive said. The budget for the high-cost program has been “stagnant since 2010,” he noted. A NARUC resolution earlier this month similarly sought more funding for the high-cost fund (see 1707180007).