A group calling itself Consumers’ Research, Cause Based Commerce, Inc. has filed comments with the FCC asking that its proposed fourth quarter USF contribution factor be rejected, and that any…
NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association recently presented several suggestions for long term USF stability to the FCC. New grant programs must be implemented, it said, to avoid certain smaller rural carriers…
USTelecom—The Broadband Association recently offered a variety of long term, common sense proposals to the FCC. It said, in summary, that: USF is now, and will remain, necessary for the…
In a recent meeting with FCC staff, NTCA expressed serious concerns over the impacts of the resurgent budget control mechanism on rural LECs receiving cost based Connect America Loop Support…
A bill introduced by Republican Senators Shelley Moore-Caputo, WV, Roger Wicker, MS, and Todd Young, IN, would order the FCC to conduct a feasibility study of collecting USF payments from…
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, in a recent Newsweek op-ed, suggested that large online streaming service providers – Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and Microsoft – should begin paying their fair…
In a recent meeting with the FCC, NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, asked again that the Commission waive application of its budget control mechanism to certain kinds of universal…
