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FCC Announces May 15th Deadline for Rural Call Completion Intermediate Provider Registration
Continuing to implement the FCC’s rules to improve service to rural areas, the FCC announced that all “intermediate providers” (i.e., entities that carry, but do not originate, long distance traffic) must register with…
FCC Rural Call Completion Order Clarifies Applicability of Service Quality Standards
On March 15, 2019 the FCC adopted its Fourth Report and Order (“Order”) establishing rural call completion service quality standards for intermediate providers. While the Order remains largely unchanged from the draft…
FCC Set to Adopt Rural Call Completion Service Quality Standards
The FCC continues its efforts to improve rural call completion, teeing up a draft Fourth Report and Order (“Order”) that would adopt new service quality standards for intermediate providers (i.e. entities that carry,…
FCC Looks to the Spectrum Horizons in March Open Meeting
Spectrum issues will once again take center stage at the FCC’s next open meeting scheduled for March 15, 2019. In a jam-packed agenda, the FCC plans to create a new category of experimental licenses for operations in…
New Rural Call Completion Deadlines Established
We now know that the Rural Call Completion rules the Federal Communications Commission adopted in late 2013, and modified in November 2014, have taken effect, with obligations commencing as soon as April 1, 2015. The…