The FCC has started to consider whether to ban China Telecom (Americas) Corporation from providing domestic interstate and international telecommunications services within the United States. The company is indirectly and ultimately owned and controlled by the government of the People’s…
Now that the dust has settled a bit, it’s time to do some RDOF analysis. And there is no shortage of things to analyze. RDOF is a historic shift in public policy for rural broadband. What was once the funding…
WASHINGTON, December 10, 2020—The Federal Communications Commission today proposed enhancements to the Commission’s equipment authorization rules to grant limited, early-stage flexibility to innovators to accelerate the deployment of common consumer devices like cellphones, laptops, and Wi-Fi routers after FCC authorization….
MCC Iowa LLC, a subsidiary of Mediacom Communications Corporation, a long-time cable and broadband provider in the area, has sued the City of West Des Moines and the West Des Moines City Council, alleging that they are improperly using taxpayer-backed…
Congress should act to directly fund the Universal Service Fund program, said Jeff McElfresh, CEO of AT&T Communications, at an industry event today. Modernizing USF was one of four AT&T broadband policy recommendations that McElfresh outlined. McElfresh made his comments…
The latest proposal for a COVID-19 relief plan to be introduced in Congress has a $900 billion price tag, with billions allocated towards broadband. The bi-partisan and bi-cameral effort introduces a framework for stalled pandemic relief efforts in Congress. The…
SomosGov has been selected by the FCC to provide number administration services, including a new function to help in the fight against illegal robocalls. The FCC SomosGov contract is for five years, with the FCC holding an option for an…
Republican members of the Congressional Commerce Committee are calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to audit the USDA’s Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program, commonly referred to as the ReConnect program. The ReConnect audit request came in the form of a…
The idea of a government-owned 5G network seems to be anathema to commercial wireless network operators. But Julius Genachowski, who served as FCC chairman during President Obama’s first term, sees a need for the government to have 5G access. Genachowski…
Several states that didn’t previously have broadband grant programs were motivated to create them when the CARES Act made $150 billion available to state, local and tribal governments to use as they saw fit to mitigate the impact of the…
According to numerous media reports, the incoming Biden administration aims to address broadband disparities in the U.S. with billions in new funding. The Biden broadband plan aims to address both access and affordability. Like many issues in Washington these days,…
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has issued another huge fine in a robocalling complaint, this time against a telemarketer for placing more than 47,000 spoofed robocalls – in only two days – that made false charges against a California State…
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