Coalition Seeks Exemption of Rural Providers From Digital Discrimination Reporting
More than a dozen state broadband associations asked the FCC for a "rural broadband provider exemption" from its proposed digital discrimination affirmative reporting obligations (see 2403050036). Such obligations would "impose additional costs and burdens without any evidence that rural providers…
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are engaged in practices resulting in discriminatory impacts," the associations said in a filing posted Friday in docket 22-69. The record is "void of any hard data or even soft anecdotal comment to support imposition of additional reporting obligations on rural providers," the coalition said, citing the lack of evidence that smaller or rural providers engage in discriminatory practices.