NCTA Backs CCA ACP Extension Request

NCTA backed the Competitive Carriers Association’s request to extend the April 15 deadline for affordable connectivity program providers to apply the benefit to all available plans, in comments posted Monday in docket 21-450 (see 2204010040). Billing and ordering systems for prepaid products "present unique operational challenges," it said, noting participating providers "must ensure that the system modifications necessary to apply the ACP benefit must be coordinated among multiple systems." The group said its members have found “even routine system changes can take months to implement and there are operational complexities associated with applying the benefit to some currently available service offerings.”