The Brave New World of Obstruction, Objection and Online Obfuscation

The recent criticism by Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) of President Trump’s nominee for FCC Commissioner is yet another example of the complete breakdown of the most basic level of civility…

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Rural Broadband USF Help is Coming

“Although I hope these changes will help, you may be right that something more fundamental is needed. After all, if the Order is not carrying out its stated purpose of…

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Senate Hearing Explores Rural Broadband Funding

In what should be considered very good news, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, recently held a hearing to…

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Average Schedules – No Controversy Now

Once used by thousands of companies, and at the center of more than a few industry battles, the interstate average schedules have settled into a kind of quiet anonymity. There…

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Comments from Russia Filed on Net Neutrality

In a cyber world (as well as a real world) that is becoming increasingly strange, the FCC has received thousands of fake comments from Russia and two other foreign countries…

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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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