Rural Carriers Seek Special Treatment Under Any Duty to Report Broadband Service Failures

摘要

Rural carriers should be exempt from any FCC requirements to report broadband service nfailures or should get longer than others to file the disclosures, said a group of wireless carriers nin the countryside. “Small, rural carriers are not even remotely able to take advantage of neconomies of scale in the same way that larger carriers do,” the group said. “Many rural ncarriers are lucky if they serve a few thousands subscribers. A large regional or nationwide ncarrier may serve thousands or tens of thousands of customers in a two or three-block radius, nand can spread its compliance costs over millions of subscribers."