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The wireless industry continues to push for almost tariff-like regulation of communications attachments on utility poles. Despite prior statements by the FCC favoring negotiated agreements, the wireless industry is now asking the FCC to prohibit a utility pole owner from even attempting to reach a negotiated agreement, ironically stifling the […]
On August 12, 2019 the FCC created a new Fraud Division within the Enforcement Bureau. The mission of the Fraud Division is to uncover, investigate, and prosecute attempts to commit waste, fraud, and abuse within the Commission’s universal service funds, including the high cost fund, the E-rate fund, the low-income […]
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a detailed decision this week (MAW Communications, Inc. v. PPL Electric Utilities Corporation, DA 19-771) addressing the relative rights and responsibilities of a pole-owning electric utility and a telecommunications carrier for the carrier’s unauthorized attachment to the utility’s poles, the carrier’s refusal to pay an […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit just issued a decision that dealt a serious blow to the FCC’s efforts to exempt almost all small antenna deployments from review under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and the National Historic Preservation Act (“NHPA”). (United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee […]
Join us for this one-day LB3/TC2 conference on strategies for staying ahead of the demand for network cost savings in your Network and IT Infrastructure deals. The demand for cost savings and network budget reductions can be relentless. This invitation-only event for large companies will focus on the key strategies […]
The Commission’s Rural Healthcare (RHC) Program is divided into two parts: (1) the Telecommunications (Telecom) Program; and (2) the Healthcare Connect Fund Program. The Telecom Program, established in 1997, subsidizes the difference between urban and rural rates for telecommunications services. The Healthcare Connect Fund, which was created in 2012, provides […]
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