On Oct. 15, representatives from WTA and its member companies discussed with staff from Chairman Pai’s office the need by the approximately 435 rural local exchange carriers that receive HCLS and/or CAF-BLS for relief from the budget control mechanism during
Today, WTA filed comments in response to the Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the FCC’s proceeding to create the Digital Opportunity Data Collection. In its comments, WTA discussed the difficultly of defining locations for the purposes of the … Continue reading “WTA Files Comments on Broadband Mapping”
In response to the July 17 FCC Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on combating illegal and unwanted robocalls, WTA filed comments stating that the key to the resolution of many of the robocall blocking issues raised in this proceeding “is … Continue reading “WTA Comments on STIR-SHAKEN”
Today, WTA filed comments with the FCC expressing opposition to its proposal to detariff telephone access charges (TACs) such as the Subscriber Line Charge (SLC) and Access Recovery Charge (ARC), arguing that there are no significant current problems or complaints
On May 28, representatives from WTA and five of its member companies discussed suspending the Budget Control Mechanism reductions for CAF-BLS companies for a year or at least for the remainder of the COVID-19 emergency with all five FCC Commissioner … Continue reading “WTA Recommends Suspension of BCM for Remainder of COVID Emergency”
On May 20, WTA filed comments in response to the Public Notice, released by the Wireline Competition Bureau, seeking comment on the applicability of Section 4 of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (“Secure Networks Act”) to … Continue reading “WTA Files Comments on Section 4 of Secure Networks Act”
On May 15, WTA filed Comments in response to the Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted by the Commission on March 31, which implements the TRACED Act and mandates STIR/SHAKEN on IP portions of a carrier’s … Continue reading “WTA Files Comments in Robocalls/TRACED Act Proceeding”
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