AT&T Backs Pai's USF Plan for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands
AT&T recapped a meeting with Wireline Bureau staff where it backed more USF support for restoring communications networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as proposed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai (see 1803160051), to help in hardening its…
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and others' networks to withstand future hurricanes. Any extra USF support for Caribbean recovery should come with accountability measures like requiring short-term funding recipients use the resources on restoration and hardening of equipment and network facilities affected by hurricanes Irma and/or Maria, but that it shouldn't be allowed for such uses as retirement of company debt unrelated to the covered expenditures, said a docket 10-90 filing posted Monday. The carrier said the FCC should require all short-term funding recipients to certify compliance with that use of the funds, and should let recipients know they could be subject to a potential Universal Service Administrative Co. audit.