FCC Streamlines Rules for Retiring Legacy Facilities to Promote Next-Generation Networks and Services
The FCC has streamlined the process for phasing out legacy services to encourage the industry shift from legacy wireline to next-generation, IP-based offerings. Finding...
Installment Payment Waiver Request Denied for Fourth Time in a Row
The FCC has denied GLH Communications, Inc. (GLH)’s petition to reconsider previously rejected requests by several parties, including GLH, for waiver of section 1.2110...
New Spectrum Frontiers Item Looks at 26 GHz and 42 GHz Bands; Comments Due...
The FCC has adopted a Third Report and Order, Memorandum Opinion and Order, and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as part of its...
2018 Form 481 ETC Annual Report Deadline Extended to July 16; Rate Floor Forms...
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau), on its own motion, granted a brief waiver and extension of the July 2 filing deadline for eligible...
Space Age Infrastructure Becoming a Reality
Elefante Group, Inc. (Elefante) has filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the FCC to provide access to the 21.5-23.6, 25.25-27.5, 71-76 and 81-86 GHz...
Senate Bill Would Reserve Broadband Funding for Unserved Areas
Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Steve Daines (R-MT) have introduced the Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Areas and Locations for Broadband (RURAL Broadband) Act of 2018...
FCC Grants Conditional Waiver for SAS Administrators in 3.5 GHz Band
The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) and the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) have granted a conditional waiver for spectrum access system administrators...
House Subcommittee Debates Rural Broadband Permitting Efficiency Act of 2018
Members of a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands this week debated a bill introduced in the House in January of 2018, entitled...
FCC Portal for ISP Network Transparency Disclosures Available May 29, 2018
The FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, in coordination with the Wireline Competition Bureau, have established a portal for Internet service provider (ISP) transparency...
FCC Seeks Comment on Petition for Declaratory Ruling regarding the VoIP Symmetry Rule
The Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking comment on a Petition for Declaratory Ruling filed by CenturyLink Inc. regarding the application of the VoIP symmetry...
