Finally, legislation has been introduced in Congress to impose USF support payments on broadband service providers. The Universal Broadband Act, sponsored by Congressmen Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Don Young (R-AK)…
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in a pair of recent letters, summarized the large number of important steps that the Commission has taken to combat the effects of Covid-19 on the…
The Federal Communications Commission has issued Show Cause Orders against four Chinese companies that are controlled – actually, owned -- by the Communist government. The orders direct China Telecom Americas,…
In a move dovetailing the proposed Keeping Critical Connections Act (see our blog of April 17, 2020), a pair of Republican Congressmen have introduced the Serving Rural America Act. The…
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and Congressional Representatives has recently introduced a bill that would help small broadband providers continue to provide service in rural America during the coronavirus…
ICORE has long been in favor of the FCC’s light touch regulatory regime for the “information services” provided by large, powerful and multi-service national and international corporations. Freeing them from…
When the author of this blog was just a little kid, the world of telecommunication – as offered by the local telephone company – was a far different animal than…
