NTCA Urges FCC Approval of RLEC Broadband Testing Relief, Cites Lack of Opposition
NTCA said the FCC should approve small carrier relief from broadband testing duties, after no one opposed its application for review of a Wireline Bureau order and the Wireless ISP Association supported it (see 1810090037). The regulations should be limited…
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to require rural providers to test only "network segments that are reasonably within [their] control," the RLEC group replied, posted Monday in docket 10-90. NTCA "ultimately welcomes measures intended to ensure accountability in performance of networks that leverage universal service support" but any testing requirements should "be deferred until such time as equipment that enables rural providers to complete testing in an economically reasonable and administratively efficient manner is available."