FCC Releases Connect America Fund Omnibus Order and FNPRM

"STATEMENT OF

COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
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