Revised Legacy High-Cost Deployment Requirements Detailed
For rate-of-return carriers that plan to decline the FCC’s recent offer of revised Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM II) support and...
$65.7M in Revised A-CAM Funding to Bring Faster Broadband to Over 106,000 Locations
The FCC has authorized $65.7 million in revised Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) funding to 186 rate-of-return carriers that will bring...
FCC Seeks Comment on Universal Service Waiver
Tata Communications (America), Inc. and Tata Communications (Guam), LLC (collectively “Tata”), have filed a petition for waiver seeking a limited waiver of...
FCC Adopts New Rules for White Space Devices; Resolves Petitions for Reconsideration
In order to ensure that the ever-increasing number of fixed white space devices do not interfere with licensed services and in an...
FCC Releases Fourth Report and Order on Rural Call Completion
The FCC has released a Fourth Report and Order (Fourth RCC Order) to further implement the authority it was given through the Improving Rural...
FCC Grants Partial Waiver of Audit Requirements
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released an Order granting a partial waiver of FCC and Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) audit requirements for...
Phase-Down Support Amounts for Price Cap and Fixed CETCs Announced
Pursuant to the FCC's recent Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II Transitions Order, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has announced phased down legacy universal service support...
Wireline Competition Bureau Announces 2019 Inflation-Based Caps for E-Rate and RHC Programs
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau has released a Public Notice announcing the inflation-based caps for funding year 2019 for the E-Rate...
Save the Internet Act of 2019 Introduced in House and Senate
Congressional Democrats have introduced the Save the Internet Act of 2019, which if adopted would restore the open Internet rules that the FCC adopted in...
Wireline Competition Bureau Announces Next National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier Launch
The Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) announced via Public Notice today that the Lifeline Eligibility Verifier, or National Verifier, will commence its soft launch on...
