Today:   FCC Open Meeting, Connect America Fund, Wireline Infrastructure Deployment, Wireless Infrastructure Deployment, Business Data Services, Nebraska 911 Service Standards

FCC Open Meeting - April 2017

The FCC announced that the following items are among the issues tentatively included on the agenda for the April Open Commission Meeting scheduled for April 20, 2017.  Continuing the Chairman’s pilot program, the FCC is publicly releasing the draft text of each item expected to be considered at the next Open Commission Meeting. One-page cover sheets summarize each item.

• Connect America Fund – Consider an Order on Reconsideration that would amend the construction project limitation within section 54.303 of the Commission’s rules to permit carriers to report, for universal service purposes, capital expenses per location up to the established per-location per-project limit, rather than disallowing all capital expenses associated with construction projects in excess of the limit.
• Wireline Infrastructure Deployment – Consider a NPRM, NOI, and Request for Comment that would propose to remove regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment, suggest changes to speed the transition from copper networks and legacy services to next-generation networks and services dependent on fiber, and propose to reform Commission regulations that are raising costs and slowing, rather than facilitating, broadband deployment.
• Wireless Infrastructure Deployment – Consider a NPRM and NOI  that commences an examination of the regulatory impediments to wireless network infrastructure investment and deployment, and how the Commission may remove or reduce such impediments consistent with the law and the public interest.
• Business Data Services – Consider a Report and Order that recognizes the strong competition present in the business data services (BDS) market and modernizes the FCC’s regulatory structure accordingly to bring ever new and exciting technologies, products, and services to businesses and consumers.

Nebraska 911 Service Standards

The Nebraska Public Service Commission opened a proceeding to examine the quality and performance measures that are used or should be used by carriers to test network redundancy and reliability for 911 service. TMI Briefing Service subscribers see TMI Briefing dated 3/27/17.

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