FCC Updates Rate-of-Return Cost Model, Invites Carriers to Correct Plant Mix Inputs
According to a recent Public Notice, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) is actively working on refining the Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM)...
Comment Deadline in Vacant Channel Rulemaking Suspended
The FCC has suspended comment and reply deadlines in its vacant channel rulemaking until further notice. The FCC action came in response to a...
FCC Chairman Green Lights AT&T/DirecTV Merger
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has issued a public statement indicating that an order recommending approval of the AT&T/DirecTV merger has been circulated to the...
RUS Awards $86 Million in Rural Broadband Grants and Loans
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has awarded $74.8 million in Telecommunications Loans and $11 million in Community Connect Grants to...
Lifeline Broadband FNPRM Comments Due August 17
On June 22, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission released a Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) related to the universal service Lifeline program....
Chairman Wheeler Announces Big August Open Meeting Agenda
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has released the tentative agenda for its August open meeting, scheduled for August 6, 2015. It contains the...
Comment and Effective Dates Set for New CVAA Rules
The Federal Communications Commission's new emergency information accessibility rules have been published in the Federal Register and will become effective on August 10, 2015....
Chairman Wheeler Circulates New IP Transition Rules
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has announced that he has circulated among his fellow FCC Commissioners a Report and Order, Order on Reconsideration, and Further...
FCC Resolves Investigation of TerraCom and YourTel Privacy Violations
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) has entered into a Consent Decree resolving its investigation into whether TerraCom, Inc. (TerraCom), and YourTel America, Inc. (YourTel)...
August 5 Deadline Set for Comments on Small Business Exemption to Enhanced Transparency Rule
Comment deadlines have been established for the request for comment on the enhanced transparency requirements that were adopted in the FCC’s Open Internet (or...
