Federal Filings and Ex Parte

On February 8, 2019, Mike Romano, NTCA Senior Vice President of Industry Affairs met with Preston Wise, special counsel to Chairman Ajit Pai. NTCA discussed various policy initiatives including Network Performance Testing, and Rate Floor issues.

On February 8, 2019, Mike Romano, NTCA Senior Vice President of Industry Affairs met with Nirali Patel, wireline advisor to Chairman Ajit Pai to discuss Intercarrier Compensation issues.

On February 7, 2019, Mike Romano, NTCA Senior Vice President of Industry Affairs, met with Jamie Susskind, chief of staff to Commission Brendan Carr. NTCA discussed various policy initiatives including Network Performance Testing, Intercarrier Compensation and Rate Floor issues.

On February 7, 2019, NTCA joined with twenty-four associations in a White House letter requesting that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) work with industry groups to strengthen the cybersecurity of the Internest of Things (IoT).

On February 5, 2019, NTCA members and staff met with Chairman Ajit Pai during the NTCA RTIME conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. NTCA expressed appreciation to the Chairman and staff at the Federal Communications Commission for the order with respect to high-cost universal service. NTCA members discussed their intent to deploy additional broadband in 2019 to benefit rural consumers based upon the greater predictability provided by the order.

On January 15, 2019 NTCA filed comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Developing a Privacy Framework. NTCA noted that our members are committed to protecting the privacy of their customers and they have taken an active role in privacy proceedings undertaken by a variety of Federal agencies including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

On December 20, 2018, NTCA staff Josh Seidemann, Tamber Ray and Mike Romano met with Suzanne Yelen, Alec MacDonnell, Stephen Wang and Cathy Zima from the Wireline Competition Bureau to discuss performance testing obligations for small, rural providers.

On December 18, 2018, Brian Ford, NTCA Senior Regulatory Counsel, met with Nancy Stevenson and Richard Smith from the FCC Consumer and Government Affairs Bureau to discuss the calling party number identification provision adopted in the Report and Order in regards to Docket 91-281.

On December 17, 2018, NTCA filed an Ex Parte letter to FCC responding to comments filed by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Associations (WISPA) on December 5, 2018. NTCA's comments highlighted agreements with WISPA on ETC designations and further clarified NTCA's stance on other aspects of the CAF Phase II auction.