Rural Telcos Take Discontent With USF, Intercarrier Comp Overhauls to Hill

摘要

Rural telcos protested the FCC's Universal Service Fund (USF) and intercarrier compensation nrevamps. Uncertainty about changes in the USF “is very scary for us,” General Manager nMitzie Branon of the Yadkin Valley Telephone Membership Corp. testified on behalf of nOPASTCO, the NTCA and the Western Telecommunications Alliance to the House Small nBusiness Subcommittee on Healthcare. The commission’s “narrow focus” on the “completely nunserved” means that many rural areas which need high-cost support for broadband won’t get nhelp, Branon said.