Carolina West Wireless Seeks Waiver of Rural Call Completion Rules
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking comment on a petition filed by Carolina West Wireless, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Clear Stream Communications,...
LECs Want Declaratory Ruling on Application of intraMTA Rule
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking comment on a petition filed by a group of local exchange carriers (LECs) that requests a declaratory...
RUS Seeking Comment on New Environmental Review Process
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has announced that it is seeking public and federal agency comment on the preparation of a Programmatic Environmental Assessment...
FCC Announces Winners of Rural Broadband Experiment Support
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has announced the entities that have been provisionally selected as winners of rural broadband experiment support. Collectively, the provisional...
Final FCC Meeting of 2014 Contains Three Major Items
The Federal Communications Commission has released the final agenda for its final open meeting of 2014. It includes the following three important items:
E-Rate Modernization:...
Commission Orders Electronic Filing For Certain Proceedings
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has amended its rules to require electronic filings for (a) applications for authorization of domestic transfers of...
Updated List of Operating Company Numbers Released
To help facilitate compliance with the FCC’s rural completion rules, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has announced that the National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc....
Special Access Data Reporting Deadline Extended
The deadline for responding to the mandatory data collection in the special access proceeding has been extended. The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau...
Comcast to Lead FCC’s CSRIC
The FCC has announced that Comcast has been named the Chair of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC). Comcast Executive Vice...
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau to Consider Robocalls and Call-Blocking
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (Bureau) is seeking comment on robocall and call-blocking issues raised in a...