Let Emergency Broadband Providers Offer Bundled Services, FCC Urged

Let ISPs offer bundled services as part of the $3.2 billion emergency broadband benefit program, "Emergency Broadband Benefit Carriers" asked staff for FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, per a filing Friday in docket 20-445. Bundled offerings "that include talk and text is critical to the success of the EBB program"; otherwise it would "unnecessarily complicate matters for mobile carriers," the letter said. It didn't say which carriers participated. Members are UScellular, Smith Bagley, Cellular South and Cellular South Licenses, Union Wireless, Viaero Wireless and East Kentucky Network, according to past filings provided to us by agency officials. Lukas LaFuria, the law firm representing the carriers, didn't comment.