"Facilities Based" excludes all fixed wireless, is that correct? Would VoIP - properly reported, taxed, etc. - qualify as voice?
Randy On 5/29/2012 10:40 AM, Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) wrote: > Right. > > And that's why we still have to fight they current rules as proposed. > > We've made the statement that if any company offers un subsidized service > then no one should get a tax payer funded leg up in the market. > > Under the current rules a SINGLE company has to provide both *facilities > based *voice and broadband without subsidies before the faucet is shut off > to the USF/CAF recipient. > > We're in the bottom of the 9th inning and we're down by a couple of runs, 2 > out full count and Casey is at bat. > > Are we going to swing at the ball or just stand there and watch it fly by? > > marlon > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fred Goldstein" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 11:16 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] USF/CAF > > >> At 5/25/2012 01:03 PM, Matt wrote: >>> Perhaps anyone accepting money from these funds should be required to >>> wholesale there services at a discount such as dry loop dsl? They >>> should also not be allowed to price under cut wholesalers for that to >>> work? >> In fact, that *was* the rule. Or at least they had to wholesale the >> DSL, even if it was bundled with cheap POTS. When the FCC detariffed >> DSL in 2005, it was permissive, so the Bells could detariff while the >> subsidized rural ILECs stayed on tariff in order to maximize their USF. >> >> The new Connect America Fund rules make one major change -- they >> allow the ILEC to detariff DSL, offer it only as a retail information >> service, and still get subsidized. That's how they want to "improve" >> broadband availability. Gee, do you think any telco lobbyists were >> active in getting that passed? ;-) >> >> -- >> Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com >> ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ >> +1 617 795 2701 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Randy Cosby | InfoWest, Inc | www.infowest.com Vice President | 435-674-0165 x 2010 | facebook.com/infowest _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
