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.…
The recent resignation of USAC CEO Chris Henderson drew a swift and searing response from FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, and we doubt that the Commissioner would have been so openly…
The FCC’s highly controversial Net Neutrality Order, issued in 2015 by the Tom Wheeler-led Commission, is under serious attack from current Republican Chairman Ajit Pai. In the recent circulation of…
The pace of FCC deregulatory activities has quickened rapidly, with three major rulemaking efforts having recently come to the forefront. In the first, Ajit Pai’s Commission adopted a Report and…
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…
