In a recent meeting with FCC staff, NTCA expressed serious concerns over the impacts of the resurgent budget control mechanism on rural LECs receiving cost based Connect America Loop Support…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is preparing to offer four federally funded programs to administer $65 Billion in broadband assistance. The largest – the Broadband Equity Access and…
The proposed revisions, if approved by the FCC, will provide interstate settlements to 282 study areas for the July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 period. Assuming constant demand, these…
A bipartisan bill was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate, to assure that the Department of Agriculture targets broadband funding through its Reconnect Program to those rural, agrarian and remote…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which has been accepting applications for high speed broadband grants and loans from carriers in rural areas since November 24, 2021, will close…
ICORE is extremely pleased to announce that we have partnered with Advanced Technologies & Services {ATS} to help our clients and other small carriers with their broadband testing needs. ATS…
The push to bring broadband to Native American lands took a step forward recently when the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA} awarded the first three grants from its Tribal…
