FCC Initiates Rulemaking to Enhance Communications Reliability During Disasters
Recent hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires have demonstrated how susceptible America’s communications infrastructure is to disturbance during natural disasters. The FCC has thus...
WTB Grants Waiver to Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation to Treat Specified Off-Reservation Lands as Eligible...
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has granted the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation (TDN) a waiver allowing specified “off-reservation” lands to be treated as eligible...
FCC Proposes E-Rate Rule Update to Promote Tribal Library Participation
The FCC has proposed updating the definition of library in the E-Rate program rules to clarify that Tribal libraries are eligible for...
FCC Adopts Standard Foreign Ownership Questions
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a standard set of national security and law enforcement questions for companies with foreign ownership seeking...
FCC Proposes Rules to Block PSAP Robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a forthcoming Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to protect Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) from unwanted...
FCC Extends White Space Push Notification Waiver
The Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has reissued a waiver of the push notification requirement for fixed and...
House Grants Extension for Further Consideration of Broadband Internet Connections for Rural America Act
On September 24, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce granted an extension for further consideration ending no later than October 28,...
FCC Dedicates Over $1.2 Billion in Emergency Connectivity Fund Program’s First Funding Wave
The FCC has pledged $1,203,107,496.88 in funding for 3,040 schools, 260 libraries, and 24 consortia in the Emergency Connectivity Fund Program’s (the...
FCC Determines Duke Energy Progress Charged AT&T ‘Unjust and Unreasonable’ Pole Attachment Rates in...
Similar to its findings issued in August 2021 for AT&T’s claims against Duke Energy Florida’s operations in that State, the FCC’s Enforcement...
FCC Releases Proposed Fourth Quarter 2021 Universal Service Contribution Factor
On September 10, the FCC's Office of Managing Director (OMD) released a Public Notice announcing the proposed universal service contribution factor for...
