:: December 9th, 2011 ::
On December 8, WTA filed comments with the Office of Government Ethics expressing concerns about an aspect of the agency’s newly proposed ethics rules that would prohibit federal executive branch employees from attending conferences hosted by industry trade associations.
:: December 1st, 2011 ::
On November 29th, representatives from WTA, NTCA, OPASTCO and NECA met with the FCC to discuss “the continuing problem of calls not properly completing to consumers in rural areas and expressed frustration with the industry’s lack of appropriate and timely response.” Read the notice of ex parte here.
:: November 28th, 2011 ::
Today, WTA, OPASTCO, NTCA, ITTA, ACA and RICA filed joint comments with the Library of Congress’ Copyright Office in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking implementing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
:: November 21st, 2011 ::
Today, WTA, NTCA and OPASTCO issued a press release responding to the FCC’s release of the Report and Order and FNPRM released on Nov. 18th.
:: November 18th, 2011 ::
The document can be found here.
:: October 27th, 2011 ::
Today, WTA, NTCA and OPASTCO issued a statement to the media in response to the FCC’s vote to approve a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on USF and intercarrier compensation.
The FCC has also issued a press release and Executive Summary of the Report and Order and FNPRM.
:: October 24th, 2011 ::
On October 21st, WTA, NTCA and OPASTCO sent a letter to President Barack Obama expressing concerns that the FCC may not share his same commitments to “ensure that every American has a broadband connection and can benefit from the economic, job and marketplace opportunities that advanced communications technology provides” and “scale back unnecessary regulations that are burdensome on entrepreneurs and otherwise impair the nation’s economic health.”
:: October 24th, 2011 ::
On October 20th, WTA, NTCA, and OPASTCO met with FCC Chairman Genachowski and “discussed implementation of USF and ICC reforms consistent with the plan filed by a number of national, regional, and state associations on April 18, 2011, as updated by the ‘Consensus Framework’ joint letter.” A notice of ex parte was filed.
:: October 24th, 2011 ::
On October 20th, RUS Administrator Jonathan Adelstein sent a letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski asking the FCC to adopt a waiver process for “those who have prudently, in good faith with government oversight, under current USF rules” when devising it’s USF/ICC reform. This waiver would “help alleviate concerns that the new USF formulation will not be sufficient for a recipient to avoid defaulting on a government obligation.”
:: October 21st, 2011 ::
On October 19th, 13 state telco associations wrote to the FCC in support of the industry Consensus Framework. They write that “it is of importance that the Rural Plan portion of the Industry Consensus Framework not only proactively addresses universal service reform and intercarrier compensation reform, it maintains the strong benefit to the economy provided by rural incumbent local exchange carriers.” Read more…
