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Yesterday, representatives from NECA, WTA, and NTCA met with staff at the FCC to discuss a petition filed by NECA, WTA, NTCA, ITTA, ERTA, Windstream and Frontier to gain relief from reductions in intercarrier compensation associated with the exchange of … Continue reading “Rural Associations Meet with FCC to Discuss Petition on Originating VOIP”
Today, NECA, WTA, NTCA and ERTA filed comments on response to the FCC’s Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking reviewing the Part 32 Uniform System of Accounts. As stated in the comments, the rural associations support “reducing administrative burdens whenever possible … Continue reading “Rural Associations File Comments on Part 32 Accounting Rules”
On November 6th, representatives met with Commissioner Rosenworcel’s legal advisor to discuss rural call completion issues and express frustration that after more than a year since their adoption by the FCC, the record keeping and reporting rules have not gone … Continue reading “Rural Associations Discuss Call Completion With FCC”
This week, WTA met with wireline advisors to Commissioners Pai, Rosenworcel, and O’Rielly as well as the Wireline Competition Bureau’s E-rate team to discuss WTA’s support Petitions for Reconsideration seeking a modified definition of “rural” and “urban” that … Continue reading “WTA Meets with the FCC to Discuss the E-rate Definitions of Rural and Urban”
Today, WTA filed comments in support of petitions filed by NTCA and Utah Rural Telecom Association, West Virginia Department of Education, State E-rate Coordinators Alliance, and Utah Education Network seeking reconsideration of the FCC’s revision of the definition of “rural” … Continue reading “WTA Files Comments in Support of Several Petitions for Reconsideration of the FCC’s E-rate Modernization Order”
This past week, representatives from WTA met with staff for FCC Commissioners Rosenworcel, Pai and O’Rielly to discuss the rural associations’ data-only broadband plan, Capital Budget Mechanism and e-rate reform. The notices of ex parte can be found below.
Meeting … Continue reading “WTA Discusses Data-Only Broadband with FCC”
Yesterday, WTA filed reply comments to the FCC’s E-rate Modernization Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The reply comments urge the Commission to resist encouraging consortium bidding in an arbitrary or over-generalized manner that “may lead to unintended consequences such as … Continue reading “WTA Files Reply Comments to FCC’s E-rate Modernization FNPRM”
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