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…
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…
