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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FCC Working on Rural Broadband Funding

In a recent letter to several members of Congress, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai outlined several recent steps that the FCC has taken -- or will be taking –…

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A Deep Freeze

The FCC’s recent FNPRM on certain interstate jurisdictional cost separations issues, including a proposal to extend for another fifteen years the existing freeze on category allocations, would create a very…

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“21st Century Internet Act” Introduced in Congress

If enacted, the legislation proposed by Republican Congressman Mike Coffman of Colorado will codify into federal law “four corners” of net neutrality, while creating a new title for broadband services…

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Regulatory Humility

In a recent address, Chairman Ajit Pai stressed this as one of four “foundational principles” that guide his FCC in encouraging the development of new technologies and high-speed networks. Speaking…

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Divestiture in Reverse

The recent court ruling which allowed AT&T to acquire Time Warner for a cool $85 billion was not just a blow to the U.S. Department of Justice, but it is…

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