Blue Stream Fiber Urges FCC Against Bulk Billing Proposal

Blue Stream Fiber raised questions about the "timing and need" of the FCC's proposed ban on bulk billing arrangements for broadband in apartment buildings in meetings with Wireline Bureau staff, with an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, and with an aide to Commissioner Anna Gomez (see 2403050069). The company said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 17-142 that bulk billing "only works to provide high quality internet services at affordable prices where all residents in a community share the cost associated with providing the service." Blue Stream Fiber also asked the FCC to seek comment on "the benefits of bulk billing arrangements" rather than "tentatively conclude that they should be broadly banned."