USTelecom Discusses Rural Digital Opportunities With Wireline Officials
USTelecom and member companies presented ideas on the format and timing of the Rural Digital Opportunities Fund, in a meeting with staff from the FCC Wireline Bureau and the Rural Broadband Auction Task Force, said a filing posted Tuesday to…
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docket 19-126. Executives from AT&T, CenturyLink, Consolidated, Frontier, Verizon and Windstream attended. They shared estimates on unserved housing units in rural census blocks and the importance of better broadband maps. Industry wants the FCC to wait to implement a proposed $20 billion, 10-year broadband funding program until there's a new system to better report locations that have and lack access to broadband. Among the FCC officials present were Chelsea Fallon, director of the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force, and Sue McNeil, associate chief of the Wireline Bureau.