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
“21st Century Internet Act” Introduced in Congress
If enacted, the legislation proposed by Republican Congressman Mike Coffman of Colorado will codify into federal law “four corners” of net neutrality, while creating a new title for broadband services under the Communications Act of 1934. Enhanced protections for both consumers and broadband businesses are also included. The four corners prevent ISPs from: 1) blocking, … Read More
Regulatory Humility
In a recent address, Chairman Ajit Pai stressed this as one of four “foundational principles” that guide his FCC in encouraging the development of new technologies and high-speed networks. Speaking before the 18TH annual Global Symposium for Regulators in Geneva, Switzerland, he summarized how the Commission deals with emerging technologies and networks. “Regulatory humility,” he … Read More
Divestiture in Reverse
The recent court ruling which allowed AT&T to acquire Time Warner for a cool $85 billion was not just a blow to the U.S. Department of Justice, but it is also likely to encourage a run of similar deals that will concentrate more control over networks, content, and distribution in the hands of an ever-shrinking … Read More
Partisan Politics Strike the FCC
The same anti-Trump, anti-Republican fervor that has defined Democrats since the last presidential election seems to be increasingly infecting the Federal Communications Commission and its Chairman, Ajit Pai. A recent letter from Ranking Democrats Frank Pallone (NJ) and Mike Doyle (PA) to Republican Committee Chairs Greg Walden (OR) and Marsha Blackburn (TN) attacked Chairman Pai … Read More
ICORE Files Comments on NPRM Concerning USF Support for Rate of Return Carriers
Our May 25th Comments stressed to the FCC that to meet its goals of Universal Service, support to high cost, low revenue rural areas must be consistent, predictable and fully sufficient to allow for the growth and deployment of advanced, high speed broadband services. Thus, the Commission, “must not be bound by any rigid budget … Read More
As USAC Announces Cuts in HCLS and CAF BLS Support, Pai Responds
USAC recently announced that application of the FCC’s budget control mechanism would reduce USF support for small Rate-of-Return RLECS by 15.52% over the course of the next year. “As required by the…Rate of Return Order,” they said, “USAC is required to calculate total support available to Rate of Return carriers.” Did they mention that they … Read More
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