Universal Service reforms were supposed to lower the price of stand-alone broadband. But NTCA says rural users could pay nearly twice as much as urban users
The FCC Chairman set rural wireless goals for completion before year-end. New data roaming rules may be needed to ensure small carriers can offer nationwide
Network operators would get tax breaks for deploying broadband in Pai Gigabit Opportunity Zones. Pai also wants 10% of spectrum auction funds to go toward
Some provisional awardees in the FCC Rural Broadband Experiment program have had difficulty obtaining letters of credit. But the FCC has no sympathy for
Census blocks eligible for the Connect America Fund auction will include those where price cap carriers declined to deploy broadband at the level of support