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…
Chairman Ajit Pai, before his recent re-nomination by President Trump for a second full term at the Federal Communications Commission, fired another salvo at what he views as over-regulation by…
Many individual ILECs and their associations have offered formal comments, as well as ex parte presentations, advocating the full funding of high cost broadband support for both A-CAM model participants…
