WC Docket No. 11-42, Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service Lifeline and Link Up Reform and Modernization; WC Docket No. 10-90, Connect America Fund; GN Docket No. 14-28, Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, Mike Romano and Brian Ford on behalf of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association, along with Patricia Cave and Gerry Duffy on behalf of WTA – Advocates for Rural Broadband Paul Kelly with Cordova Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and Dave Goggins with TelAlaska (collectively the “Rural Representatives”), spoke via telephone with Amy Bender, Legal Advisor to Commissioner Michael O’Rielly. The parties discussed the Universal Service Fund (“USF”) Lifeline modernization Order reportedly under consideration by the Federal Communications Commission.