White House Announces $10 Billion Fund for Rural Economic Development
The White House has announced it is establishing the U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund – a $10 billion dollar investment fund that will promote...
FCC Fines Four of the Nation’s Largest Carriers Nearly $200 Million for Sharing Access...
The FCC has issued forfeiture orders (Orders) imposing huge fines on four of the nation’s largest wireless carriers for sharing access to...
FCC Adopts Enhanced ACP Broadband Benefit for High-Cost Areas
The FCC has adopted an Order that will provide up to a $75 monthly broadband benefit for subscribers living in qualifying high-cost...
FCC Revises Reasonable Comparability Benchmarks; Extends Compliance Deadline
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics have announced revised 2024 reasonable comparability benchmarks for fixed broadband services...
Push for Delayed Net Neutrality Vote and Public Disclosure of Order Rebuffed by Chairman
Three days before the FCC’s February 26 meeting, Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly have made a last-ditch effort to delay the FCC’s net...
Fourth Circuit Appeals Court Finds ISP Not Entitled to DMCA Safe Harbor Protection
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Richmond) has found broadband Internet access service providers Cox Communications, Inc., and CoxCom LLC...
Sanders Infrastructure Bill Contains $5 Billion For Broadband Deployment
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, has introduced the “Rebuild America Act of 2015,” a $1 trillion infrastructure-funding bill...
White House Announces $10 Billion Fund for Rural Economic Development
The White House has announced it is establishing the U.S. Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund – a $10 billion dollar investment fund that will promote...
Commissioner Pai Proposes USF Reforms for Rate-of-Return Carriers
Senior Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has proposed a number of changes to the FCC’s rules that govern the way universal service fund (USF)...
FCC Extends BDC Filing Deadline
The FCC’s Broadband Data Task Force has announced that the Broadband Data Collection filing window deadline for submission of availability and subscription...
