The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) have taken steps aimed at enabling rural carriers to offer discounts on broadband connections for low-income families with school age children at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic…
ATIS, a telecom industry association representing manufacturers and service providers, said late last week it will partner with the National Exchange Carrier Association on a voluntary testing project aimed at identifying call completion issues. In an email to Telecompetitor, an…
Four rural telco associations last week filed an application for review and petition for stay of new caps on Universal Service support. The caps, adopted several weeks ago by the FCC’s wireline competition bureau, have come under fire because of…
Three organizations representing small rural telcos late last week filed a petition for reconsideration and clarification with the Federal Communications Commission on various aspects of the Universal Service and inter-carrier compensation reform order adopted late last year. Signing the petition…
News today reveals that for the first time in history, wireless only households now outnumber wireline only households. This according to new data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, a program of the Center for Disease Control (CDC),…
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