FCC Adopts 2023 Access Charge Tariff Filing Procedures
The FCC has adopted an Order establishing the procedures of the 2023 filing of annual access charge tariffs and tariff review plans...
Auction 903 CAF-II Performance Testing Clarified
In conjunction with various changes the FCC made to performance testing requirements for Connect America Fund Phase II (CAF-II) support won in...
Court Rejects Legal Challenge to FCC Denial of USF Waiver Request
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has rejected Consolidated Communications of California Co.’s (fka SureWest Telephone) challenge...
Net Neutrality Order on Remand Adopted in Split Vote
In response to last year's remand by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals of the 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom Order, the FCC...
FCC Grants Waivers of Geocoded Location Data Deadline
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) granted several petitions filed in 2019 to waive the prior year's March 1, 2018 deadline to...
WCB Pauses Phase-Out of Voice-Only Lifeline Support and Increases in Minimum Service Standards for...
The Wireline Competition Bureau has announced in an Order that it will pause both the scheduled phase-out in Lifeline support for voice-only...
Fixed Voice Service Urban Rate Survey Results Announced
In the USF/ICC Transformation Order, the Federal Communications Commission determined that “ETCs must offer voice telephony service, including voice telephone service offered on a standalone...
WCB Announces Launch of National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier in California
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB or Bureau) has announced the launch of the National Lifeline Eligibility...
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...
West Kentucky Telco Scores Waiver of ICC Recovery Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has granted West Kentucky and Tennessee Telecommunications Cooperative (West Kentucky)'s petition for waiver of certain intercarrier compensation...
