AT&T Continues to Fight for State, Federal Deregulation

After introducing regulatory and legislative measures in those states where it provides telecommunications/broadband services, AT&T has intensified its drive for deregulation of those same services through a pleading before the…

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Rate Floors – A Bad Idea That May Be Ending

As you know, the minimum local rates that small rural ILECs must charge to receive full USF support have been frozen by the FCC at their current $18 per month.…

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Alt-Left Protests Net Neutrality Changes

The unhinged far left, including antifa members and “comedian” John Oliver, has launched several attacks on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and his plan to reverse net neutrality regulation. Over the…

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Congressional Coalition Seeks Rural High Cost Broadband Relief

Congressman Kevin Cramer, R-ND, recently sent a bipartisan letter to the FCC on behalf of 102 Representatives, asking the Commission to help small, rural, high cost companies with additional broadband…

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USAC Attacked

The recent resignation of USAC CEO Chris Henderson drew a swift and searing response from FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, and we doubt that the Commissioner would have been so openly…

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Title I or Title II?

The FCC’s highly controversial Net Neutrality Order, issued in 2015 by the Tom Wheeler-led Commission, is under serious attack from current Republican Chairman Ajit Pai. In the recent circulation of…

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FCC Accelerates Deregulation

The pace of FCC deregulatory activities has quickened rapidly, with three major rulemaking efforts having recently come to the forefront. In the first, Ajit Pai’s Commission adopted a Report and…

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