Bureau Finds One Study Area Subject to 100 Percent Competitive Overlap
In July 2015, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) released a preliminary list of 15 rate-of-return incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) study areas subject...
Contribution Factor Climbs To All-Time High of 18.2 Percent
The FCC’s Office of Managing Director (OMD) has announced that the proposed universal service contribution factor for the first quarter of 2016 is 18.2...
Consumer Advocates Unhappy With New Backup Power Rules
A group of 10 consumer advocate organizations led by the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) has asked the Federal Communications Commission...
FCC Equalizes Pole Rates for Cable and Telecommunications Attachments
The FCC has reconsidered its 2011 rate formula governing the rates charged by utilities for pole attachments used to provide telecommunications services and has made...
Form 499 Changes Proposed
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau is seeking comment on several proposed revisions to its annual and quarterly telecommunications reporting worksheets (FCC Forms 499-A and...
Bill Introduced to Codify Small Business Exemption to Net Neutrality Disclosures
Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) has introduced the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act of 2015 (S.2283). If passed, the bill would make permanent the current...
USTelecom Withdraws Structural Separation Forbearance Request
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has granted a request by the United States Telecom Association (USTelecom) to withdraw a discreet portion of its...
FCC Releases Form 477 Broadband Deployment Data
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau have released data on fixed and mobile broadband deployment as of December 31, 2014, collected...
Cox Penalized for CPNI Breach by “Lizard Squad” Hacker
Cox Communications (Cox) has agreed to a $595,000 settlement with the FCC following an investigation in to whether Cox failed to properly protect customer proprietary...
FCC Denies Stay of New Definition of Oklahoma Tribal Areas
In June 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a number of reforms to the universal service Lifeline program, including the adoption of a...
