Federal Filings and Ex Parte

(Aug 13) In a filing to the FCC, NTCA opposed a California Public Utilities Commission Petition seeking to make public network outage data filed by service providers. NTCA stated that the FCC has already addressed the issue and, that aside...

(Aug 9) In reply comments filed in the FCC’s STIR/SHAKEN proceeding, NTCA highlighted that industry agrees that the agency’s proposal to identify small providers enabling robocalls and require them to adopt call authentication technology on an accelerated timeframe is overly-inclusive...

(Aug 2) NTCA submitted comments in response to the Wireline Competition Bureau’s invitation to refresh the record on a petition for reconsideration filed by the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA). Citing NTCA’s previous comments and its own...

(Jul 16) Pointing to increasing broadband demand and demonstrated accomplishments of locally operated rural providers, NTCA demonstrated the need for fiber networks deployed by locally operated rural providers.

(Jul 9) In comments filed in the FCC’s STIR/SHAKEN proceeding, NTCA stated that the agency’s proposal to identify small providers enabling robocalls and require them to adopt call authentication technology on an accelerated timeframe is overly-inclusive. NTCA noted the FCC...

(Jun 28) Responding a Viasat Application for Review, NTCA argued that a Commission staff decision to reject the satellite provider’s application to bid a low-latency, low-Earth orbit (“LEO”) service in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction should be...

(Jun 15) In a letter filed June 15, 2021, NTCA stated that the FCC should identify the standards by which it will review RDOF long-form applications as it considers the distribution of billions of dollars of federal ratepayer resources to...

(Jun 10). In comments submitted to the FCC, NTCA detailed the challenges its members are facing in terms of access to the communications equipment (including routers, consumer premises equipment and fiber) they need to serve their rural communities. NTCA also...

(Jun 3) NTCA staff met with the office of FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to discuss the multiple and continuing Emergency Broadband Benefit Enrollment failures and challenges faced by rural carriers. NTCA proposed solutions to prevent recurrences in the future and...