As part of its consent decree in the rural call completion proceeding, Verizon is hosting two rural call completion workshops. The first will take place on Wednesday, April 22nd from 12:00pm to 5:00pm at the National Press Club in Washington, … Continue reading “Verizon Schedules Rural Call Completion Workshop”
Today, NECA, NTCA, WTA, OPASTCO, ERTA and ITTA filed comments in response to CTIA’s opposition to the rural associations’ Application for Review of the FCC’s April 25th Order on regression analysis. The associations’ state that “CTIA’s opposition contains only superficial … Continue reading “Rural Associations Reply to CTIA Opposition to Rural Associations’ Application for Review”
Global NAPs (GNAPs) Comments… Continue reading “WTA Joins NECA and Other Associations Opposing GNAPs’ Petition for Declaratory Regarding Access Charges”
RUS and NTIA have released the applications for the broadband stimulus grants and loan. Please visit BroadbandUSA to download them. The deadline for submissions is 5 PM ET on August 14th. According to RUS and NTIA, an electronic application … Continue reading “Broadband Stimulus Applications Available”
ada-press-release-51092… Continue reading “WTA Applauds Introduction of Legislation to Exempt USF from the ADA”
Today, the FCC released updated rules for the transition to digital television due to the transition being delayed until June 12, 2009. These new rules effect the consumer education effort required of Eligible Telecommunications Carriers (ETCs) and Multichannel Video Programming … Continue reading “FCC Updates Rules for DTV Consumer Education Effort”
Federal Register a Notice that it will begin meeting with interested parties about implementing the proposed broadband grant program signed into law as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The meetings will begin on March 2, 2009. Representatives … Continue reading “NTIA Soliciting Comments on Broadband Grant Program”
