Special Access Data Collection Approved – With Changes
The Office of Management and Budget has approved, with changes, the FCC’s mandatory reporting requirement regarding special access services. Among others, the changes include...
FCC To Investigate Devices That Impersonate Cell Phone Towers
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler has informed Representative Alan M. Grayson (D-FL) in a letter dated August 1, 2014, that “the FCC...
More LECs Seek Waivers to Add Halo Revenue to Their ICC Recovery Mechanism Support
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking separate comment on two petitions for waiver of the FCC’s rules that govern the intercarrier compensation (ICC)...
FCC Updates Tower Lighting & Marking Regulations
The FCC has adopted an Order updating its antenna tower lighting and marking regulations and harmonizing them with FAA requirements. The order allows tower...
Order Tackles High-Cost Line Count Disputes
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has issued an order addressing two more challenges related to claims for universal service high-cost support. This order...
Commission Releases Tenth Broadband Progress Notice of Inquiry
Federal law requires the Commission to annually review whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion. ...
Four Carriers Increase ICC Recovery Mechanism Support Due to Inclusion of Halo Revenue
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has granted in part, subject to certain conditions, a petition filed by TDS Telecommunications Corp. and a petition jointly...
Federal-State Joint Board to Examine, Recommend Changes to USF Contribution Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released an Order which asks the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service (Joint Board) to provide recommendations on...
Legislation Would Prevent Wireless Carriers From Receiving Lifeline Support
Representative Austin Scott (R-GA) has introduced legislation (H.R. 5376) to “prohibit universal service support of commercial mobile service and commercial mobile data service through...
FCC Rejects “One Path, Four Links” Interpretation of LMDS Point-to-Point Safe Harbor
The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) has denied an LMDS construction notification of licensee The Ponderosa Telephone Co. (Ponderosa), effectively terminating Ponderosa’s LMDS license. ...
