Happy Thanksgiving

As we prepare for Thanksgiving with family and friends, fellowship and football, and a fond farewell to the November elections, we have much to be thankful for. In our industry,…

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Agitate, Prevaricate, Investigate

Eerily similar to -- if not so sleazy – as their tactics used late in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats have struck again. Many…

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The Time to Rationalize Broadband USF Support for Rate of Return Carriers is NOW

The telecommunications industry, the FCC, state regulators, Congress and a plethora of other interested parties have been discussing, offering opinions, arguing, filing and commenting on, and endlessly debating the insufficiency…

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Thune in Tune

“First, rural Americans, and the smaller businesses serving them, must never be an afterthought when making public policy decisions.” So began the opening remarks of Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) Chairman…

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California Challenges FCC’s Open Internet Order

California, that bastion of sky-high taxes, over-regulation, outrageous housing prices, and progressive liberalism writ large, recently passed stringent internet regulatory legislation in direct violation of the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom…

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Veterans to Get Help with Broadband Internet Access

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”…

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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…

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