DC Circuit Sets Briefing Schedule for Net Neutrality Appeal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) has set the fast-track schedule for the appeal of the FCC’s...
FCC Adopts TRS Rates
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) recently adopted per-minute compensation rates to be paid from the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Services Fund for the Fund Year...
FCC Grants Carolina West Rural Call Completion Waiver
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has granted a request by Carolina West Wireless, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Clear Stream Communications, LLC...
Bureau Again Extends Special Access Proceeding Deadlines
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has again extended the deadlines for submitting comments in its special access rulemaking proceeding....
Waivers Allow ILECs to Add Unrecoverable Halo Revenue to Eligible Recovery
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has issued an order granting in part, and subject to certain conditions, eight petitions for waiver of the FCC’s...
FCC Clarifies, Seeks Comment on Small Business Exemption to Enhanced Transparency Rule
The FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) has issued a public notice initiating a comment cycle regarding the enhanced transparency requirements that were...
FCC Kicks Off Process of Modernizing Lifeline to Support Broadband
At its June 2015 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), Order on Reconsideration, Second...
VoIP, It’s A Numbers Game
The FCC has adopted an Order that will allow interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers to obtain North American Numbering Plan (NANP) telephone...
International Bureau Affirms VoIP International Reporting Requirements
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) International Bureau (Bureau) has dismissed a petition filed by the Voice on the Net Coalition (Petitioner). The...
USF Contribution Factor Declines Slightly to 17.1 Percent
The FCC’s Office of Managing Director (OMD) has announced that the proposed universal service contribution factor for the third quarter of 2015 will be 0.171 or...
