Tag: regulatory

  • FCC’s Carr is a Fan of Field Visits, Foe of Regulatory Overreach

    FCC’s Carr is a Fan of Field Visits, Foe of Regulatory Overreach

    This is the final installment of Steve Pastorkovich’s excellent coverage of NTCA’s 2023 Telecom Executive Policy Summit (TEPS). The first article on the topic of broadband funding is here and the second article regarding security and network resilience in the face of attacks is here. FCC’s Commissioner Carr on the Importance of Field Visits, and…

  • CISA: “Shields Up” is the New Normal; New Rules Coming

    CISA: “Shields Up” is the New Normal; New Rules Coming

    This is the second of three articles covering NTCA’s Telecom Executive Policy Summit. The first article can be found here. One hundred rural broadband provider executives came to the nation’s capital for sessions and meetings with legislators and other policymakers November 6 – 7th as part of the Telecom Executive Policy Summit (TEPS), produced by…

  • Redl Highlights Rural Broadband in First Address as NTIA Chief at Telecoms Symposium

    Redl Highlights Rural Broadband in First Address as NTIA Chief at Telecoms Symposium

    “Creative Destruction” and Net Neutrality covered by panels of economists, lawyers David Redl, the newly-minted Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), put rural broadband front and center while making his first public remarks since being sworn into his new office. His keynote address…

  • Rural America Needs Advanced Services & Competition – Part 2

    Rural America Needs Advanced Services & Competition – Part 2

    [Editor’s note: Mr. South’s first article provided a brief history of AT&T as as a regulated monopoly and the forces that drove to the 1984 break-up of “Ma Bell”. Part 2 examines the aftermath of the break-up, particularly its impact on telecommunication services to rural areas.] Click here to read Rural America Needs Advanced Services & Competition…

  • Give Us Visibility

    Give Us Visibility

    With over 650 telecommunications’ operators behind last week’s letter that was sent to the FCC and their elected representatives, the rural telecom industry is as united as it ever has been. In the words of the letter, “This letter is…clear and unambiguous notice of our collective concerns with the ‘regression analysis’ based caps on Universal…

  • The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind

    The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind

    It is only two years ago that the talk of the MTA’s Annual Convention was the stimulus and last year the buzz was about the broadband plan that was one of the outcomes of the stimulus legislation. This year, talk kept coming back to implementation of the broadband plan. Bill Hegmann, Chairman of NECA, provided an…