How Service Providers Can Get Involved in the FCC’s IP Trials
On January 30, 2014, the FCC published an order for the creation of trial experiments meant to shape the way the nation’s communications networks provide services during this new era of technological...
View ArticleFCC Recognizes Importance of Wholesale Access During Presentations on...
At its June 13 open meeting, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau made a presentation on the status of the AT&T service-based experiments in the Technology Transitions proceeding. Following the...
View ArticleBipartisan Speakers Talk about “Customers, Competition and the 1996 Telecom Act”
Recently, current and former Members of Congress, consumer advocates and CEOs from the nation’s leading competitive broadband providers joined with customers to discuss the enduring benefits of...
View ArticleLevel3 Wants FCC to Impose ISP Interconnection Requirements
Level3 Communications wants the FCC to impose interconnection requirements on Internet service providers – a move the company said is necessary to “fully protect the free and open Internet.” The...
View ArticleFCC Proposes Model-Based CAF for Rate-of-Return Carriers
The FCC wants rate-of-return telecom companies to transition to model-based support as today’s voice-focused high-cost Universal Service Fund is phased out and converted to a broadband-focused Connect...
View ArticleFCC Reveals Rural Broadband Trial Plans, Reforms E-Rate
The budget for FCC rural broadband trials announced in January has been set at $100 million and the commission expects to award funding by year-end, officials said at today’s FCC meeting, where...
View ArticleFCC Releases E-rate Modernization Order, FNPRM
On July 23, the FCC released its E-rate Modernization Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), which adopts a number of the proposals made in its NPRM and begins the process of...
View ArticleFCC Releases List of Areas Eligible for Rural Broadband Experiments
Last week, the FCC Wireline Competition Bureau released a list of census blocks that are eligible for rural broadband experiment support and their associated support amounts, as calculated by the...
View ArticleTelephone Spoofing Bill Introduced In Congress
In telecom networks, “spoofing” is the practice of misrepresenting the caller ID of a phone call. It is a practice often used by criminals trying to commit telecom fraud. On September 9, the US House...
View ArticleWhat Net Neutrality Means for VoIP Providers
Net neutrality has been a hot topic all year. The window for public comment on how federal rule-makers should treat Internet traffic closed on September 12, 2014. The FCC received a records 3.7...
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