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FCC Seeks Comments on How to Distribute $7.1 Billion in ‘Homework Gap Funding’
The Wireline Competition Bureau of the FCC will soon open a comments period, seeking input on how to best distribute the $7.1 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), aimed at helping close the so called homework…
FCC Could Get an Earful as it Seeks Comment on ETC Designation for RDOF Winning Bidders
The FCC is seeking comment on requests for eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC) status for winning Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) bidders that don’t already have ETC status. Considering the controversy that some winning bids have…
Rural Providers Sue State Over Texas Universal Service Fund
The Texas Telephone Association, which represents about 50 rural telecom providers, is suing the state of Texas in connection with the state’s Universal Service Fund (USF). According to a report published by media outlet The…
Verizon Accelerating America Broadband Plan: Congress Should Fund Access, Affordability, Adoption
Congress should provide funding for broadband, argues Verizon in a 28-page proposal titled Accelerating America: Affordability, Adoption, Access. Among other things, Verizon recommends lifting restrictions on municipal networks in unserved areas and providing $20 to…
FCC Awards First Quarter of $100 Million Connected Care Pilot Funds
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has chosen 14 pilot programs over 11 states for the Connected Care Pilot Program, awarding applicants $26.6 million for their proposed projects. The program started taking applications for a projected…
FCC Chair Pai Has an Idea for the C-Band Auction Windfall and It Involves USF
The C-band spectrum auction isn’t over yet, but we already know it will create a windfall for the U.S. Treasury, having already doubled or even tripled some forecasts. Outgoing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wants to…
FCC Establishes Rules for Replacing Huawei, ZTE Equipment, Cites O-RAN Opportunity
The FCC today adopted rules for funding the replacement of telecom network equipment deemed to pose a security threat to telecom networks. In an order adopted today, the commission also addressed other responsibilities assigned to…
AT&T Broadband Policy Goals Include Modernizing USF, Three More
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…
Carriers to Receive Seventh Year of CAF Support, Worth $1.5 Billion for Rural Broadband
The FCC said yesterday that all price cap carriers eligible to receive a seventh year of Connect America Fund (CAF) support have opted to do so. The total value of the funding accepted is nearly…
FCC Connect USVI Program Awards Funding to Bring Gigabit Broadband to Virgin Islands
All locations in the U.S. Virgin Island are set to receive 1 Gbps fixed broadband. The deployment will be funded, in part, through the FCC Connect USVI Stage 2 program. Broadband VI was the winning…
FCC to Start Taking Applications for $100M Connected Care Pilot Program
The application window for the FCC Connected Care Pilot Program will open tomorrow, November 6th at 12 PM ET. The application window for the program, which will support health care providers with as much as…
T-Mobile Gets Stuck with $200M Sprint Lifeline Settlement
T-Mobile has agreed to pay a civil penalty to settle an FCC Sprint Lifeline investigation dating back over a year. The Sprint Lifeline settlement is for $200 million. The Lifeline program, administered by the FCC,…
