WTA Files Reply Comments to FCC’s E-rate Modernization FNPRM

Yesterday, WTA filed reply comments to the FCC’s E-rate Modernization Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The reply comments urge the Commission to resist encouraging consortium bidding in an arbitrary or over-generalized manner that “may lead to unintended consequences such as exclusion of lower-cost local providers or other forms of reduced competition for E-rate services and increased costs to the Program, as well as unfairness to the schools, libraries, and local service providers that are unable or unwilling to participate in consortia.”