Court Upholds FCC’s Internet Order . . . Or At Least Most of It
In an October 1st Opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld many of the key provisions of the Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Act. That is,…
FCC Creates New Fraud Division
A newly established Fraud Division, operating within the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, will help protect USF programs from further fraudulent behavior. The Commission’s Order, released earlier this year and just recently…
Irregulators: Frozen Separations Factors Cause Malformed Rates
An informal group of former FCC officials, State Attorney General’s Office experts and lawyers, and telecommunications consultants, have taken the FCC to task over its recent Order that extends the…
Hard USF Caps and USF Principles . . . Oil and Water
The FCC’s recent proposal to impose a total cap on all USF programs is completely incompatible with its long-standing Universal Service principles. The nationwide Communications Act of 1934 stated that…
Once More, With Feeling
In a letter of response to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gave probably his most concise and powerful defense of the Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order. First,…
The Time to Rationalize Broadband USF Support for Rate of Return Carriers is NOW
The telecommunications industry, the FCC, state regulators, Congress and a plethora of other interested parties have been discussing, offering opinions, arguing, filing and commenting on, and endlessly debating the insufficiency…
Veterans to Get Help with Broadband Internet Access
A recent Public Notice from the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau seeks information and data that will form the basis of a report to Congress “on promoting broadband Internet access service”…
