Rural Associations Meet with FCC and Hill Staff to Discuss Call Completion

On November 14th, representatives from NECA, NTCA, WTA and OPASTCO met with the FCC to discuss the results of a survey that found that consumer complaints about occurrences of calls failing to complete to rural communities are steady or getting worse.  In addition, a briefing was held for Senate telecom staff on the issue on the 15th.  The associations issued a press release.