On May 26, 2020, NTCA submitted a letter to the FCC expressing concerns with USAC's budget control mechanism. Connect America Fund, WC Docket No. 10-90
NTCA supported a petition that sought eligibility for price cap areas with 25/3 Mbps service to participate in Phase II of RDOF. Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Docket No. 19-126 Connect America Fund, Docket No. 10-90
On May 20, 2020, NTCA filed comments in response to an FCC Public Notice asking how the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (“Act”) affects the FCC’s proposed rules for reimbursing eligible telecommunications carriers for the cost of removing and...
On May 18, 2020, NTCA submitted a letter on interconnection issues arising out of the potential transition of any transport rate elements to bill-and-keep in connection with 8YY access charge reform. 8YY Access Charge Reform, WC Docket No. 18-156; Call...
In comments filed on May 15, NTCA argued that “rules of the road” for IP interconnection is the most important step the FCC can take to promote rural carriers’ adoption of technology to combat robocallers. NTCA also advocated for implementation...
On May 11, 2020, NTCA filed a letter and report in support of Universal Service Contribution reform. Read the report here. Universal Service Contribution Method, WC Docket No 06-122
On May 7, 2020 NTCA submitted a letter to the FCC regarding the Universal Service Administrative Company's May 1 announcement that the budget control mechanism for the 2020-2021 annual support period starting July 1 has increased to 5.3%. Connect America...
On April 30, 2020, NTCA filed comments with the FCC supporting the FCC’s proposal to allow local, state and other federal agencies to access communications providers’ Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) and Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) filings. NTCA cautioned...
On April 29, 2020, NTCA filed a reponse to Frontier Communications Corporation's challenge to the list of census blocks deemed initially eligible for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I auction. Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, WC Docket No. 19-126...
On April 23, 2020, NTCA's Mike Romano, along with Brian O’Hara from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Thomas Cohen of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on behalf of the Fiber Broadband Association, Brett Kilbourne and David Rardin from the...
NTCA submitted comments to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) on policies for servicing actions associated with financially distressed borrowers from the Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan Program, the Rural Broadband Program, the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program (DLT), the Broadband Incentives Program...
On April 27, 2020, NTCA submitted reply comments on proposals to assess the 5.9 GHz band rules and repurpose the lower 45 MHz part of the band for unlicensed operations to support high-throughput broadband applications. Use of the 5.80 –...
On April 27, 2020, NTCA submits comments on the state of competition in the communications marketplace. NTCA urges the Commission to assess competition in the broadband Internet access marketplace through the lens of the complementary nature of fixed and mobile...
On April 14, 2020, NTCA submitted comments to the FCC supporting Red River Communications in its request for a revised A-CAM II offer in light of errors on a Form 477 submission made by a neighboring incumbent local exchange carrier...
On April 13, 2020, NTCA filed comments with the FCC supporting the Connect America Phase II Coalition's waiver request to allow Phase II recipients to use less stringent letter of credit rules similar to those allowed for the Rural Digital...
On April 10, 2020, NTCA submitted comments to the FCC encouraging the commission to hold firm to "bright line" technologically neutral rules to define the eligibility for operators to bid in certain performance tiers and not consent to requests from...
On April 7, 2020, NTCA filed comments with the FCC in support of a Petition for Preemption of several Missouri cities’ imposition of duplicate right-of-way (“ROW”) fees upon a telecom provider and the owner of the network used by the...
On April 1, 2020, NTCA filed a letter supporting an extension of time of the April 22, 2020 deadline for Eligible Telecommunications Carriers (“ETCs”) to file information with the FCC identifying the Huawei and/or ZTE equipment and services contained in...
On March 27, 2020, NTCA submitted comments to the FCC concerning procedures for the upcoming RDOF auction. NTCA suggested the commission use census block groups as the minimum geographic area, employ reasonable measures to establish basic qualifications of bidders and...
On March 25, 2020, NTCA and the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) filed joint comments with the U.S. Department of Commerce asking for a reasonable extension of the Temporary General License for exports, reexports and transfers (in-country) to Huawei while the...
