(Nov 5) NTCA met with staff from the FCC’s Wireline Competition and Consumer and Government Affairs Bureaus to discuss Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (“EBB”) benefit transfers conducted without subscribers’ prior affirmative consent. NTCA stated that this practice is disruptive to consumers as well as to providers, and undermines existing and potential beneficiaries’ faith in the EBB program in a way that could undercut demand. NTCA observed that this practice can be eliminated simply via clarification of existing EBB program rules.
