FCC Expands Lifeline Program To Support Broadband Service
At its March open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission adopted an order which modernizes the Federal Lifeline program to allow low income consumers to...
FCC Releases Rate-of-Return USF Reform Order
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a Report and Order, Order, and Order On Reconsideration (Order) that make significant changes to the universal...
Chairman Previews Broadband Privacy NPRM
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has released a fact sheet describing the proposed broadband privacy rules in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking currently circulating with...
Fundamental Changes Coming To The Lifeline Program
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has circulated an order that will modernize the universal service Lifeline program. Chairman Wheeler made the announcement by...
FCC Forbears From Enforcing Outdated ILEC Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has partially granted the United States Telecom Association’s (USTelecom) request that the FCC forbear from enforcing “various outdated regulatory...
Small Business Exemption to Enhanced Transparency Rule Extended Another Year
The FCC has punted for another year the decision of whether to make permanent the exemption to its enhanced transparency rule adopted in the...
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...
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...
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...
High-Cost USF Support Not for High Living, Reminds FCC
The FCC released a public notice reminding all eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) receiving high-cost Universal Service Fund (USF) support that such support may be...
