FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in a late June letter, informed a group of 38 U.S. Senators that their request for a 180-day extension of the 2.5GHz Rural Tribal Priority Window…
A recent survey and resultant study conducted by the Rural Wireless Association presents a very positive picture of how small RLECs have used legacy USF support to improve and expand…
In a straight 3-2 party line vote, the FCC approved clarity on wireless citing rules to facilitate the collocation of 5G infrastructure on existing cell towers. Democrat Commissioners Rosenworcel and…
In early June, USTelecom - The Broadband Association, joined NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association, in asking the FCC for changes to the budget control mechanism as it impacts RLEC…
NTCA –The Rural Broadband Association, has become the undisputed national champion of small, rural telecommunications and broadband service providers. In our May 14th blog, we partially quoted NTCA CEO Shirley…
In more coronavirus news, the Federal Communications Commission (see our May 8th blog), has joined with the Federal Trade Commission to demand that international gateway providers allowing Covid-19- related scam…
In an early April letter, a group of twenty-eight Senators- including twenty-seven Democrats and one "Independent," (Bernie Sanders, who votes with Republicans about as often as my beloved Buffalo Bills…
