NTCA Raises Concerns About Amnesty for RDOF and CAF II Recipients
NTCA raised concerns about a recent petition seeking amnesty for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund or Connect America Fund II recipients (see 2402280078). In a Friday letter to the FCC, the group warned that granting amnesty "without any conditions or consequences…
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would put at risk what the auction programs could still achieve, result in an inefficient allocation of valuable broadband funding resources, and create perverse incentives that reward gaming in the form of attempts to 'hop' between funding programs." NTCA suggested the commission instead grant a waiver for RDOF or CAF II recipients that pay an "early buyout" of "default liability for the abandoned locations" and bar the recipient and "its affiliates or subsidiaries seeking grant funding thereafter to serve those same locations." The letter was posted in docket 10-90.