On November 11, NRECA filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Eliminating Barriers to Wirelines Broadband Deployment. Specifically, NRECA opposed a cable proposal to preempt state specific laws regarding use of broadband in utility easements as discriminatory. Second, NRECA agreed that abandoned and unused equipment can be a barrier to broadband deployment and supported an proposal for an FCC inquiry into the practice and impact on new deployment.
