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NTCA CEO Bloomfield’s Call to Arms

Shirley Bloomfield tells rural operators to stop being so polite and work together to create some angst at the FCC about its proposed rule making. ...More
March 14, 2012 By Tim McElligott
Posted in Articles
NARUC Appeals FCC Order on Universal Service, Intercarrier Compensation

The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners is asking a court to find that the FCC's order is arbitrary and capricious, beyond the FCC's jurisdiction, authority or power, an abuse of discretion and otherwise not in accordance with law. ...More
January 20, 2012
Posted in News
FCC Releases Massive Order on Telecom Reform

The FCC released the gargantuan order after voting unanimously last month to create the $4.5 billion Connect America Fund that the agency anticipates will expand broadband access to more than 7 million rural U.S. residents over the next six years. ...More
November 22, 2011 By Josh Long
Posted in News
FCC Creates $4.5B Broadband Fund in Major Telecom Overhaul

The FCC has voted to modernize the multibillion-dollar fund that subsidizes telecommunications services and reform the convoluted and inequitable system by which telephone companies pay one another to connect calls. ...More
October 27, 2011 By Josh Long
Posted in News
FCC Chairman Outlines Plan to Reform Antiquated Communications Fund, Compensation Regime

Julius Genachowski wants to transition to the Universal Service Fund to a so-called Connect America Fund that would ultimately bring broadband to 18 million homes without high-speed Internet access today and deploy a mobile broadband network to roughly 100,000 road miles. ...More
October 6, 2011 By Josh Long
Posted in News
Senators Back Efforts to Reform Universal Service

Earlier this year, the FCC moved to reform the roughly $8 billion Universal Service Fund in hopes of fixing an inefficient program and bringing broadband Internet coverage to the entire nation, including remote areas such as Indian reservations. ...More
September 30, 2011 By Josh Long
Posted in News
Unresolved Intercarrier Compensation Issues A Drag On Competition

Despite decades of tinkering meant to improve the intercarrier compensation process, a lack of clarity, a lack of vision, and a lack of authoritative ownership have combined with continuously evolving technology to create a system that may be beyond fixing. ...More
July 11, 2011
Posted in Reports, Billing
Winning the Race for Universal Broadband

By the time policy change reaches rural America, ITU researchers will already be on hand admiring the local broadband infrastructure and raising the country’s marks on high-speed Internet access. ...More
May 24, 2011
Posted in Blog
Rural Telcos: A Last Stand?

Rural telco viability is being threatened on a number of different fronts, regulatory, technological and competitive, and they’re all requiring changes in back office strategies. ...More
May 20, 2011 By Tara Seals
Posted in Blog
CHR Gears Up for New America

With changes in its software, its approach to business and spinoff of NetAmerica, CHR is preparing rural telcos for a very different future. ...More
March 10, 2011 By Tim McElligott
Posted in News, Revenue Management