USTelecom Backs NTCA USF Budget Control Mechanism Waiver Request

USTelecom told FCC Wireline Bureau staff it backs NTCA's request for the FCC to extend its waiver of the budget control mechanism for rural cost-based Connect America Fund broadband loop support and high-cost loop support recipients, said an ex parte filing posted Thursday in docket 10-90 (see 2204110062). The group said it anticipates universal service support for "several hundred small rural companies and cooperatives over the next twelve-month period will be reduced significantly" once the Universal Service Administrative Co. completes its "recalculation of the impact estimate on the high cost budget."