According to a recent study from VPS, sponsored and commissioned by the ACAM Broadband Coalition, the cost of serving rural, isolated, agrarian and similarly situated areas could be more than…
NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association and NCTA – The Internet and Television Association, met with the FCC recently, and separately {of course), on broadband support issues In its presentation…
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has recently circulated a proposed Notice of Inquiry calling for an increase in the national standard for minimum broadband speeds, as well as a establishing a…
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners recently released a draft resolution recommending that state commissions, the FCC and USAC work together with those federal and state agencies that implement…
NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association recently presented several suggestions for long term USF stability to the FCC. New grant programs must be implemented, it said, to avoid certain smaller rural carriers…
FCC Commisioner Carr, in a statement concerning a recent GAO report, decried the lack of any unified national strategy on broadband deployment and funding. He pointed to the over 100…
USTelecom—The Broadband Association recently offered a variety of long term, common sense proposals to the FCC. It said, in summary, that: USF is now, and will remain, necessary for the…
