Emergency Accessibility and Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution on FCC’s May Agenda
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has released the agenda for its May open meeting, scheduled for May 21, 2015. It contains the following...
No Delay for Net Neutrality, Says FCC
The FCC’s Wireline Competition and Wireless Telecommunications bureaus (Bureaus) have denied three requests for a stay (i.e., delay) of the FCC’s Open Internet (or net neutrality)...
FCC Denies Adak and Windy City Petition for Reconsideration and Application for Review
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has denied a Petition for Reconsideration and an Application for Review filed by Adak Eagle Enterprises, LLC...
FCC Revisits Pole Rates
The FCC has solicited additional comments as it seeks to refresh the record on issues raised in a Petition for Reconsideration filed by the National...
New A-CAM Map Revises Central Office Locations in 98 Service Areas
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has released a revised Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) service area map. The revised map contains new...
FCC Compliance Not So Simple for Simple Network; $100,000 Fine Proposed
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Enforcement Bureau has issued a $100,000 Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL) for Forfeiture against Simple Network, Inc. for apparently...
Emergency Accessibility and Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution on FCC’s Tentative Agenda
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has released the tentative agenda for its May open meeting, scheduled for March 21, 2015. It contains the...
AT&T and SNET to Pay $10.9 Million to Resolve Lifeline Violations
AT&T and former subsidiary Southern New England Telephone (SNET) have agreed to pay $10.9 million to resolve an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission's...
Wireline Competition Bureau Approves NECA Average Schedule Formula Revisions
In December, the National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. (NECA) proposed a number of revisions to the formulas that will be used to determine average schedule...
GAO Report Examines FCC Reforms and Effectiveness of Lifeline Program
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has submitted a report to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation which summarizes...
