(July 6) In a meeting with staff to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, NTCA encouraged the Commission to strike a balance in directing resources to promote new deployments while also providing additional long-term support for operating expenses and recovery of prior investment moving forward – and specifically to deployment and sustainability as co-equal priorities in a final decision. NTCA also urged the Commission to make a proper assessment of where competition will be deemed to exist in adjusting universal service support, and to establish deployment milestones that are in fact comparable to the BEAD program.
