E-Rate Funding Increase Backed by Schools; Telcos Worry About CAF Cuts

摘要

Calls by education and library groups, and by FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in a speech Sept. 17, to increase E-rate funding are running into opposition from telcos, in comments filed in the Erate modernization Further NPRM. ITTA and USTelecom said they worry expanding E-rate could cut into other USF programs like the Connect America Fund.