Commission Touts Accomplishments Under Pai

The FCC recently issued an extensive list of Chairman Pai’s many accomplishments during his first three years as Chairman.  Published just a few days before adoption of perhaps his biggest…

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Good News: RDOF Approved

At its January 30th meeting, the FCC adopted its $20.4 billion plan to close the digital divide between rural and urban America. The Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) establishes a…

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Draft Order on Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Ready for Vote

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently announced that a draft order establishing broadband funding for the hardest-to-serve rural areas of our country would be voted on at the Commission’s January 30…

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Average Schedules – Good News and Bad

NECA filed its 2020 Modification of Average Schedules on December 23rd, to be effective for one year beginning July 1st, 2020. The proposal, which in all probability will be approved…

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Two Wins for Small RLECs

The FCC has recently approved increases in USF loop cost support for small, average schedule companies, while making official its recent order giving small RLECs more time, coordination, and flexibility…

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Commission Considers Revisions to Broadband Testing Requirements

The FCC, in a recently released Order on Reconsideration (WC Docket No. 10-90), is proposing a number of changes to its previously published broadband testing requirements for carriers receiving high…

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Commissioners Spar Over Progress of Broadband Deployment

Not surprisingly, Republican and Democrat leaders of the FCC have radically different opinions regarding the current status of broadband deployment in America. Democrat Commissioners Starks and Rosenworcel, who favor a…

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