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FCC / INTERSTATE ACCESS CHARGE PROCEEDINGS

NEW IN MAY 2012

Docket 06-122 - Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Examination of Universal Service Contribution Methodology

On April 30, 2012, the FCC released the text of its Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to determine if carriers should continue to be required to contribute to the Universal Service Fund (i.e., the new Connect America Fund) based on a percentage of their interstate (and international) end user revenues, or would another contribution methodology be better ...

Docket 05-25 - Congress Seeks to Jumpstart Special Access Proceeding

With industry insiders reporting that the FCC is poised to make yet another data request to the industry in its ongoing special access rulemaking proceeding (Docket 05-25), frustration is mounting among special access customers with the glacial pace of this proceeding ...

New FCC Commissioners Finally Appointed

After months of delay, the FCC finally got two new commissioners when Ajit Pai (Republican) and Jessica Rosenworcel (Democrat) were sworn in on May 14.  However, with the majority of the Commission remaining in Democratic hands ... 

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