Federal Filings and Ex Parte

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 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 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 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...