Wireless

The Wireless Bureau must play an equal role with the Wireline Bureau in FCC Universal Service Fund “reform” efforts, Rural Carrier Association CEO Steve Berry wrote Chairman Julius Genachowski. “The fact that the wireless industry is underrepresented on USAC’s Board of Directors and on the Universal Service Federal-State Joint Board further underscores the challenges that rural and regional wireless carriers face in having their concerns addressed,” RCA said. “While RCA applauds the FCC’s efforts to overhaul the USF, RCA is greatly concerned that the interests of rural and regional wireless carriers are not adequately represented in the Commission’s deliberative process,” Berry said.