Not surprisingly, Republican and Democrat leaders of the FCC have radically different opinions regarding the current status of broadband deployment in America. Democrat Commissioners Starks and Rosenworcel, who favor a…
At a recent Latin American Telecommunications Conference, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai declared that the American Dream of “equality of opportunity…depends on access to digital communications.” He then outlined what his…
The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would put the internet back firmly under government control. The primarily Democrat-backed Save The Internet legislation would rescind the FCC’s…
The FCC’s recent decision that eliminates the high cost USF program’s local service rate floor rule is a real win for small RLECs all over the country. The rate floor…
In a recent news release, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the Commission will vote on eliminating rate floors at its upcoming April meeting. These floors were frozen by the…
In a recent letter to Arkansas lawmakers, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had encouraging words about the future of rate floors for small LECs serving rural America. Prompted by a letter…
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,…
