On March 15, representatives from WTA, NTCA, ITTA and USTelecom met with staff from FCC Chairman Pai’s office to discuss the need to ensure the voice rate floor policy does not harm rural consumers in coming months. The ILEC representatives … Continue reading “ILEC Associations Meet with FCC Staff to Discuss Voice Rate Floor, Network Testing”
On March 5, Travis Litman, Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Advisor for FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, sat down with members of WTA’s Public Policy Committee who were in D.C. for a two-day meeting. They discussed the performance testing requirements … Continue reading “WTA Policy Committee Meets with Staff from Commissioner Rosenworcel’s Office”
On January 29th, representatives from WTA met with staff from the offices Chairman Pai and Commissioners Carr and O’Reilly to discuss the FCC’s network testing requirements and scheduled voice rate floor increases.
In regards to network testing, WTA emphasized its … Continue reading “WTA Discusses Network Testing and Rate Floor with FCC Staff”
This week, representatives from WTA met separately with staff from the Wireline Competition Bureau and the four Commissioner offices to discuss the draft USF High Cost Program budget Order and FNPRM scheduled to be voted on at the Commission’s next … Continue reading “WTA Discusses USF Budget Order with Bureau, Commissioner Offices”
On July 10, WTA filed comments in response to the FCC’s NPRM on the local voice service rate floor. WTA believes that the Section 54.318 rate floor is inequitable and unnecessary, and that its costs increasingly outweigh its intended benefits.
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”
On May 2, representative from WTA and NTCA met with staff from FCC Chairman Pai’s office. They discussed a list of issues identified in prior meetings that can and should be addressed to ensure that high-cost USF regulation will function … Continue reading “WTA and NTCA Meet with Chairman Pai’s Office to Discuss USF Reform”
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