Sprint and Mobilitie Pay Multimillion Dollar Fines to Settle FCC Investigation
The FCC has entered into consent decrees with Sprint and Mobilitie to resolve two separate but related investigations into whether the companies completed proper...
5G “Spectrum Frontiers” Proceeding Teed Up for July Vote
In its continued effort to push high-band spectrum for next generation 5G networks, the FCC plans to vote in its July meeting on a...
Senate Bill Would Reserve Broadband Funding for Unserved Areas
Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Steve Daines (R-MT) have introduced the Reprioritizing Unserved Rural Areas and Locations for Broadband (RURAL Broadband) Act of 2018...
Senate Passes ACCESS Rural America Act to Lessen Burdens of SEC Reporting
The Senate has passed, by unanimous consent, the Access to Capital Creates Economic Strength and Support Rural America Act (ACCESS Rural America...
Rural Health Care Waivers Granted in Light of Service Outages
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has granted a limited waiver to Community Hospital Corporation (CHC) allowing CHC to select a replacement service provider...
FCC Denies Kurian’s Request for Waiver and Extension of the 700 MHz E...
The Federal Communications Commission's Mobility Division (Division) has denied the request of Thomas K. Kurian (Kurian) for a waiver or five-year extension of the...
Waiver of Enhanced Transparency Rule Sought by RWA for Small Business Providers
The Rural Wireless Association, Inc. (RWA) has requested a waiver of the enhanced transparency requirements adopted by the FCC in its 2015 Open Internet...
Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Govern Access to Overseas Communications
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Dean Heller (R-Nevada), and Chris Coons (D-Delaware) have introduced the International Communications Privacy Act (ICPA) to clarify the ability of...
Bureau Releases A-CAM Census Block Group Classifications
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) previously invited rate-of-return incumbent local exchange carriers to submit study area specific plant mix input values for use...
RDOF Order Rejects Pleas Not to Exclude State-Funded Areas
The FCC has denied a series of petitions to reconsider Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) area eligibility rules...
