Taxpayers Protection Alliance Comments to the FCC In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission in response to the In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete request for comments. TPA made a number of recommendations, including:

• The FCC should make permanent the waiver granted in its docket WC 17-84 (Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment) on filing requirements in the Commission’s network change disclosure rules adopted under section 251(c)(5) of the Communications Act. 
• The FCC should reexamine its implementation of broadband labels for high-speed internet service. 
• Currently, eligible telecommunications carriers are obligated to participate in Universal Service Fund programs, which some courts have ruled are a de facto tax on consumers because ETCs are charged a USF fee that is passed onto their customers. The FCC should eliminate this requirement as part of an overhaul or elimination of the USF.