FCC Proposes Database for Reassigned Numbers to Reduce Unwanted Calls
As part of its ongoing efforts to combat illegal robocalls, the FCC seeks comment on ways to reduce calls placed by businesses to numbers...
FCC Conditionally Approves Four 3.5 GHz ESC Operators
The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology have announced that they have conditionally approved four entities to serve as Environmental...
FCC Confirms Annual CPNI Certifications Due by March 1, 2018
The Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has released a Public Notice (PN) reminding telecommunications and interconnected VOIP providers that the annual CPNI certification documenting compliance...
Rural Spectrum Scanner Takes Holiday Break
Happy Holidays! Rural Spectrum Scanner will not be published December 23-January 1 as we take a break to celebrate the holidays. We will resume...
National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier Soft Launch Pushed into 2018
The anticipated December 2017 soft launch of the National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier in six states (Colorado, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) has...
Nationwide Number Portability On The Horizon
The FCC has initiated a proceeding and has requested comment on the
regulatory and technological changes that would be required to implement complete
nationwide number portability...
FCC Extends 911 Reliability Certification Deadline
Due to the impact of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has issued a Public Notice announcing...
Study Areas with Potential 100% Overlap May Lose High-Cost Support
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has identified 13 study areas that it has determined preliminarily to be subject to the “100 percent overlap rule”...
Court Upholds Cable Rate Deregulation
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed the FCC's decision to shift the burden of justifying the...
Waiver Sought to Use Actual Revenues to Calculate Rates and Recovery
Great Plains Communications (Great Plains) in Nebraska has petitioned the FCC for a rule waiver that would allow Great Plains to use actual switched...
