Push for More 5G Spectrum Gets Legislative Boost with MOBILE NOW Act
Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) have given new life to the Making Opportunities for Broadband Investment and Limiting Excessive and Needless...
Acceptances of Further Revised A-CAM Offers Announced
175 rate-of-return companies electing 210 revised offers of Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) support in 39 states have been authorized by the FCC’s...
FCC White Paper Urges Investment In Digital Infrastructure
The FCC’s Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, Paul de Sa, has released a white paper urging investment in the...
House Representatives Introduce Bipartisan Broadband Grant Tax Relief Bill
Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Terri Sewell (D-AL) and Drew Ferguson (R-GA) have introduced a bipartisan bill, the Broadband Grant...
Alaska Plan Benchmarks Released
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has announced various benchmarks for Alaska Plan rate-of-return carriers and Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), including the “reasonable comparability”...
Commission Sets Filing Deadlines for Comcast-TWC Merger Input
In April 2014, Comcast Corporation (Comcast) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) filed joint applications seeking consent to transfer control of various Federal Communications...
FCC Shrinks High-Cost ETC Annual Reporting Requirements
The FCC has issued an order that modifies or eliminates various reporting requirements for high-cost eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) filed annually with FCC Form...
D.C. Circuit Affirms 5.9 GHz Order
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has unanimously upheld the FCC’s 2020 5.9 GHz order, which reallocated 45 MHz...
August Open Meeting to Have Lengthy Agenda
The Federal Communications Commission will hold its August Open Meeting on Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 10:30 am. The agenda includes the following items:
Emerging...
Trump Administration Proposes to Streamline NEPA Requirements
The Trump Administration, through the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), has proposed to streamline regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),...
