The FCC’s USF proposal would endanger Utah’s “well-regulated” USF program, said the...
The FCC’s USF proposal would endanger Utah’s “well-regulated” USF program, said the Utah Public Service Commission and the Utah Division of Public Utilities in a filing. By cutting support for companies that have built infrastructure in reliance on federal support,…
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the proposal will injure Utah’s rural consumers, threaten the state’s USF and imperil Utah’s rural telecom companies, the filing said. Additionally, the rulemaking represents an effective abandonment, at least in the near term, of the goal of ensuring quality services at just, reasonable and affordable rates for all consumers because it would concentrate limited resources away from many companies that can’t provide this service in the absence of support, the filing said. At a minimum, the FCC should continue providing support for the duration of companies’ indebtedness incurred, it said.