More than 500 rural telecom folks descended on Capitol Hill today to begin their week of working with members of Congress, the FCC, RUS and other entities on issues critical to our industry. FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai spoke to the delegation and called for a Connect America Fund to support broadband build out for rate-of-return carriers, …
Category Archive: Call Completion
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Apr 16 2013
House Energy and Commerce Committee Members Form Rural Telecom Working Group
By definition, the Senate is more rural than the U.S. House of Representatives as every state has rural portions. That is one of the reasons why I found it powerful when two very strong NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association allies Reps. Bob Latta (R–Ohio) and Peter Welch (D–Vt.) announced the formation of a bipartisan, congressional working …
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Apr 15 2013
How to File Call Completion Complaints
It’s sad that the situation with failed calls into rural markets has become so rampant that today NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association had to issue an alert to our members reminding them how to file complaints with the FCC. We’ve heard from a number of members in recent weeks that call completion problems have gotten worse …
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Apr 10 2013
Senate Focuses on Rural Communications
Sen. Mark Pryor (D–Ark.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, hosted a hearing yesterday on the state of rural communications policy. Ritter Communications (Jonesboro, Ark.) provided testimony on behalf of the RLEC industry and raised concerns about the quantile regression analysis and how the annual recalibration is impacting the company’s investment and deployment decisions. …
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