Rural Associations Support Separations Freeze

Today, NECA, WTA, NTCA, OPASTCO, ITTA, and ERTA filed comments with the FCC supporting a two year extension of the current freeze of Part 36 category relationships and jurisdictional cost allocation factors.  The associations wrote that “This two-year period should provide adequate time for the Joint Board and interested parties to determine how existing separations rules should be conformed to the new ICC and USF/Connect America Fund (CAF) rules.”