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On July 6, WTA and NTCA expressed support for a Petition submitted to the FCC by ITTA and USTelecom to permit ILECs that have elected to receive high-cost federal USF support via model-based distribution mechanisms – either RLECs electing the … Continue reading “WTA and NTCA Support Petition to Allow Certain RLECs to Elect Price-Cap Regulation for BDS Services”
Yesterday, WTA Board Member Dave Osborn from VTX1 in Raymondville, TX testified at the House Small Business Committee’s Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade on the importance of improving broadband solutions for rural America. A copy of this written testimony … Continue reading “WTA Board Member Dave Osborn Testifies at House Subcommittee Hearing”
On June 19, representatives from WTA and Monte R. Lee and Company met with staff from the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau to discuss the competitive overlap challenge process that will determine whether or not possible “unsubsidized competitors” will be treated … Continue reading “WTA Meets With FCC to Discuss Competitive Overlap Proceeding”
Today, WTA filed comments with the FCC in response to the NPRM requesting comment on how to streamline wireline broadband build-out. WTA’s comments focused on Section 214(a) discontinuation process and pole attachments.
WTA recommends the FCC declare “that deployment of … Continue reading “WTA Files Comments With FCC Regarding Barriers to Wireline Infrastructure Deployment”
Yesterday, WTA filed comments regarding the review and possible overhaul of the separations rules. WTA’s comments urge that a significant overhaul of the separations rules is neither necessary nor cost-justified given the limited application of the separations rules in today’s … Continue reading “WTA Files Comments on Review and Possible Revision of Separations Rules”
On May 24, WTA filed comments with the FCC in response to it’s request for comments, stating that it believes that “given the significant and continuing decreases in the number of carriers subject to the separations rules and in the … Continue reading “WTA Provides Comments On Jurisdictional Separations”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 18, 2017) – WTA – Advocates for Rural Broadband supports the Order approved today by the Federal Communications Commission that freezes the local voice rate floor that rural telecommunications providers must charge their customers in order to … Continue reading “WTA Praises Local Voice Rate Floor Freeze by FCC and Supports Elimination of Rate Floor Requirement”
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