Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. 10-90
On Thursday, April 9, 2015, CEO Shirley Bloomfield and Mike Romano, Senior Vive President-Policy, on behalf of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association (“NTCA”), met with Ruth Milkman, Chief of Staff to Chairman Tom Wheeler, to encouraged the Federal Communications Commission to move forward not only with consideration of a voluntary model for those small rural carriers who might seek such an option, but also to redouble efforts on much-needed updates to the “baseline” foundational programs that enable universal service in areas served by all such carriers.
04.09.15 FCC Ex Parte - NTCA letter re CEO Bloomfield's meeting with Milkman re WC 10-90