Positive Changes Coming to Rate Floors?

In a recent letter to Arkansas lawmakers, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had encouraging words about the future of rate floors for small LECs serving rural America. Prompted by a letter…

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Once More, With Feeling

In a letter of response to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gave probably his most concise and powerful defense of the Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order. First,…

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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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