A recently formed group, calling itself the IRREGULATORS, has filed comments with the FCC on the Commission’s proposal to extend the freeze on jurisdictional separations category relationships and cost allocation…
President Trump recently signed a congressional resolution of disapproval, effectively repealing internet privacy rules passed by the Tom Wheeler-led Federal Communications Commission. Republican Chairman Ajit Pai said the action was…
In a recent Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the FCC proposed another extension, for eighteen months, of its longtime freeze of jurisdictional separations category relationships and cost allocation factors. This…
Remember Divestiture, that 1984 blockbuster culmination of a DOJ antitrust lawsuit initiated ten years earlier? The one that broke up the mighty Bell System into AT&T and the seven “dwarfs?”…
ICORE began its corporate life as a small, upstart consulting firm trying to prevent NECA from introducing new, revenue-reducing interstate average schedules. NECA felt that a number of small, high…
NECA has established the following schedule for the data collection required CAF ICC Instructions for this year’s annual access tariff filing: Wednesday, March 8 until Midnight ET Tuesday, April 4: NECA’s…
As you know, small ILECs are being transitioned by FCC edict to a Bill and Keep of terminating access revenue. By the end of 2019, under this ill-conceived plan, they…
