Small Providers Exempted from Enhanced Broadband Disclosure Rules
The FCC has granted a five-year exemption for small businesses from the enhanced transparency requirements in the Commission’s 2015 Open Internet Order. The five-year...
LTE-U Equipment Approvals May Usher in Wireless Gigabit Era
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has authorized the first LTE for unlicensed (LTE-U) devices in the 5 GHz band. As with...
Mobility Fund, Open Internet Reporting on Agenda for February 23 Open Meeting
The FCC has released the February 23, 2017 open meeting agenda and will consider the following six items:
Universal Service Reform, Reform Mobility Fund, Connect...
New Chairman Takes Aim at “Midnight Regulations”
On Friday, February 3, 2017, the FCC rescinded, retracted and set aside several actions taken at the last minute under the prior administration. Such...
FCC Finally Adds Mobility II, CAF II, and Broadband Reporting to Meeting Agenda
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has tentatively set an ambitious agenda for the February 23, 2017 Open Commission Meeting, including the Mobility Fund Phase II...
Revised A-CAM Offers Yield $454M of Annual Support to 182 ROR Carriers
After revising Alternative Connect America Cost Model (A-CAM) offers last month in the face of a budget shortfall, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has announced...
Utility and Telecom Groups Propose CAF Phase II Weighting and Validation Frameworks
A coalition of eight rural utility and telecom groups dubbed the “Rural Coalition” has submitted a Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase II proposal to...
CGB Seeks Comment on Termination of Certain Proceedings as Dormant
The FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (“CGB”) released a public notice seeking comment on the termination of over three hundred docketed proceedings as...
Reseller Appeals Sent Back to USAC
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has remanded to the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) several appeals filed by resellers who are seeking credit...
Straight Path Spectrum Taken to the Cleaners
The Enforcement Bureau (EB) of the FCC has entered into a Consent Decree with Straight Path Communications, Inc., parent company of Straight Path Spectrum,...
