"STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
APPROVING IN PART AND DISSENTING IN PART
APPROVING IN PART AND DISSENTING IN PART
Re: Connect America Fund, WC Docket No.
10-90, Establishing Just and Reasonable
Rates for Local Exchange Carriers, WC Docket No. 07-135, Developing a Unified Intercarrier
Compensation Regime, CC Docket No. 01-92, Universal Service Reform – Mobility Fund, WT Docket No. 10-208, ETC Annual Reports and Certifications,
WC Docket No. 14-58.
In the Universal Service
Transformation Order, the Commission performed the Heraclean task of
reorienting the Universal Service Fund away from supporting telephone service
and toward supporting broadband service.
But no commissioner is the child of Zeus, so it is unsurprising that the
Commission made some mistakes and left some labors unfinished. So here we are, reconsidering the Transformation Order for the seventh time. I welcome the continued collaboration with my
colleagues, but I fear that some of today’s decisions just set us up for
reconsiderations eight, nine, and beyond." I'm skimming through the latest 212-page FCC Connect America document, and way at the end, there are FCC Commissioners' letters included. I quoted a portion of one such letter above. It's already one of my "favorite quotes" from this newest document. The document is available at
http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-connect-america-fund-omnibus-order-and-fnprm
