Closing the Gap on Tribal Lands
Tomorrow, the FCC will meet to consider three related items that focus on increasing the deployment of telecommunications services on Tribal Lands. One of those items will specifically explore a range...
View ArticleAT&T Welcomes Levin Proposal for Lifeline Program
The following statement may be attributed to Bob Quinn, AT&T Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer: “You cannot accomplish the goal of universal broadband at the...
View ArticleHappy Birthday NBP
As we gear up for tomorrow’s event at Georgetown University marking the one-year anniversary of the National Broadband Plan, I guess the inevitable question is, are we there yet? Well, not exactly. But...
View ArticleAT&T Statement on USF and ICC Reform
The FCC officially began its process today to modernize its telephone subsidy programs, the Universal Service Fund (USF) and Intercarrier Compensation (ICC) system. The comments we filed today...
View ArticleWho Knows Broadband Speeds? Sam Knows.
So, the FCC/Sam Knows “Measuring Broadband America” speed test is finally finished and guess what? The Sam Knows results, which measured the actual speeds provided by ISPs to their subscribers,...
View ArticleAT&T on Universal Service, Intercarrier Compensation Reform
You may attribute the following statement to AT&T’s Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory & Chief Privacy Officer Bob Quinn: “For far too long, the FCC has wrestled with updating the...
View ArticleComcast and the Throes of Addiction
It’s time to chalk up another victim to the addictive qualities of access charges. For more than a decade, cable companies have fought vigorously to avoid entanglement of their broadband IP networks...
View ArticleAT&T on FCC’s USF/ICC Order
Washington, DC –The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today adopted an Order to reform the Universal Service Fund (USF) and the Inter-Carrier Compensation (ICC) rules for the broadband era. You...
View ArticleAT&T Statement on FCC USF Lifeline Program Order and Further Notice
Attribute the following statement to AT&T’s Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer, Bob Quinn: “Reform of the government’s universal service Lifeline program is long...
View ArticleRepealing De-Regulation: How Not to Build a Roadmap Towards an All-IP World
The FCC has circulated an order that would undo more than 12 years of Clinton-era, deregulatory pricing policy on legacy non-packet services. The services in question are called “special access”...
View ArticleAT&T to Deploy Broadband Under FCC’s Connect America Fund Program
Today, we informed the FCC that AT&T is willing to accept up to $100 million from the Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase 1 to deploy broadband to approximately 129,000 locations that lack any fixed...
View ArticleAnchor Institutions or a Digital Bridge to Nowhere?
One of the most important issues that the FCC should examine in considering a proposal to expand its E-rate programs, is the issue of “dark fiber.” Dark fiber refers to fiber optic cable that has not...
View ArticleCritical of CAF in the 10th Circuit
Yesterday, more than two years after the FCC adopted transformational reforms of universal service and intercarrier compensation, critics of that order (which include AT&T on a single, discrete...
View ArticleThe FCC’s Half-Shoveled Sidewalk
Many communities have laws that require residents to shovel their walks within 24 hours of a snowstorm. Where I live, it’s become something of a game to take pictures of the unshoveled sidewalks of...
View ArticleMaking Mobility Fund II Work
As part of the Connect America Fund (CAF), the FCC created the Mobility Fund – a universal service support mechanism dedicated exclusively to mobile services – and in 2012 held the first Mobility Fund...
View ArticleMaking Access to BroadbandA Reality for Low-Income Americans
AT&T has long supported universal access to broadband for all Americans. And through our Access from AT&T low cost broadband program, we are making broadband a reality for low-income consumers...
View ArticleWalking in L.A.
When I was a student at UCLA, my car (that was uninsured for theft) was stolen. I suddenly found myself without basic transportation in Los Angeles. The logistics of getting to school and work became...
View ArticleAT&T Statement on FCC’s Action on Mobility Fund II and CAF II Auctions
The following may be attributed to Joan Marsh, AT&T Senior Vice President of Federal Regulatory: “While many of us take broadband services for granted, many Americans living in rural communities...
View ArticleAT&T to Deploy Broadband Under FCC’s Connect America Fund Program
Today, we informed the FCC that AT&T is willing to accept up to $100 million from the Connect America Fund (CAF) Phase 1 to deploy broadband to approximately 129,000 locations that lack any fixed...
View ArticleAnchor Institutions or a Digital Bridge to Nowhere?
One of the most important issues that the FCC should examine in considering a proposal to expand its E-rate programs, is the issue of “dark fiber.” Dark fiber refers to fiber optic cable that has not...
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