The recent FCC Business Data Service (BDS) Order provides an option for A-CAM, Alaska Plan, RoR price cap affiliates and future A-CAM adopters to elect lighter touch regulation for their BDS (Special Access) services. They may move such higher speed offerings from RoR to a fully detariffed / deregulated basis, and lower speed services to … Read More
Happy Thanksgiving
As we prepare for Thanksgiving with family and friends, fellowship and football, and a fond farewell to the November elections, we have much to be thankful for. In our industry, help seems to be on the way for RLECs, in a variety of proposals for sufficient, sustainable and predictable high cost support. For ISPs and … Read More
Agitate, Prevaricate, Investigate
Eerily similar to — if not so sleazy – as their tactics used late in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats have struck again. Many months after adoption of the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order, Senators Edward Markey (D-MA), Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Richard (ersatz Vietnam Veteran) Blumenthal (D-CT) have … Read More
The Time to Rationalize Broadband USF Support for Rate of Return Carriers is NOW
The telecommunications industry, the FCC, state regulators, Congress and a plethora of other interested parties have been discussing, offering opinions, arguing, filing and commenting on, and endlessly debating the insufficiency and unpredictability of broadband universal support for RoR carriers. For far, far too long. This uncertainty has deterred investment, negatively affected rural carriers and their … Read More
Thune in Tune
“First, rural Americans, and the smaller businesses serving them, must never be an afterthought when making public policy decisions.” So began the opening remarks of Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, in an October 4th hearing labeled “Broadband: Opportunities and Challenges in Rural America.” Senator Thune went … Read More
California Challenges FCC’s Open Internet Order
California, that bastion of sky-high taxes, over-regulation, outrageous housing prices, and progressive liberalism writ large, recently passed stringent internet regulatory legislation in direct violation of the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in discussing this turn of events at the Maine Heritage Policy Center, opined that of all efforts to place the … Read More
Veterans to Get Help with Broadband Internet Access
A recent Public Notice from the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau seeks information and data that will form the basis of a report to Congress “on promoting broadband Internet access service” for our country’s military veterans. This report is required by the RAY BAUM’S Act of 2018, which puts a particular emphasis on broadband for low … Read More
Significant Broadband Testing Ordered to Start in Less than One Year
The FCC, in an order adopted and released July 6, 2018 (by the Wireline Competition Bureau, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and the Office of Engineering and Technology), prescribed broadband testing requirements for CAF high cost support recipients with build-out requirements. Included are: -Price cap carriers receiving model-based CAF Phase II support, -Certain RoR ACAM recipients … Read More
FCC Working on Rural Broadband Funding
In a recent letter to several members of Congress, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai outlined several recent steps that the FCC has taken — or will be taking – to enhance broadband service in rural America. The Chairman outlined a number of positives: -The FCC, in March, “devoted over $500 million to increasing deployment … Read More
A Deep Freeze
The FCC’s recent FNPRM on certain interstate jurisdictional cost separations issues, including a proposal to extend for another fifteen years the existing freeze on category allocations, would create a very deep freeze indeed. Category allocations have already been frozen for 18 years, since 2001, so this extension would put the freeze at an almost glacial … Read More
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