The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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FCC,
The Regulatory Mix,
telecom regulation,
special access,
Comcast-Time Warner Cable,
Missouri,
Time Warner Cable
The Federal Communications Commission recently released an updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about its Special Access Data Collection. Prepared by the staff at the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, the documents provides answers to non-technical FAQs about the data collection. Below are excerpts from the FAQ that we thought we be of interest to our clients.
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FCC,
special access,
CPNI,
featured post,
ILEC
The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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FCC,
The Regulatory Mix,
Pennsylvania,
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cybersecurity
The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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Topics:
FCC,
The Regulatory Mix,
TRS,
Michigan,
Nebraska,
special access,
CMRS,
Text-to-911
So you’ve decided to enter the telecom market. You’ve made the hard decisions such as - "do I make the capital investment, buy a switch, and become a facilities-based carrier?" or, "do I resell another carrier’s wholesale services until the timing is right to make the switch?"
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Telecom audits,
special access,
featured post,
OSS
The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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FCC,
The Regulatory Mix,
Lifeline,
US Congress,
special access,
CMRS
The FCC
announced that the Office of Management and Budget had approved,
with changes, its special access data request.
See TMI's Blog "
FCC Sends Special Access Data Collection to OMB for Review" dated 12/12/13. The FCC said its data collection will be revised to reflect the terms of
OMB’s approvaland will become effective upon announcement in the Federal Register. Among other things, the changes made by OMB will: (1) require that data be reported for only one year (2013); (2) exclude entities that purchased less than $5 million in Dedicated Services in 2013 in price cap ILEC areas from the definition of Purchaser; and (3) make several questions voluntary or require responses only if the required information is kept that way in the normal course of business. The specific changes are as follows:
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FCC,
special access
The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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Topics:
FCC,
rural call completion,
special access
The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court, issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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Topics:
FCC,
The Regulatory Mix,
911,
energy competition,
US House of Representatives,
special access,
US Senate
Now that 2013 is over and behind us, we can focus on the challenges of 2014. With the New Year comes change and 2014 will have no shortage of such. Among the many changes, are the highly anticipated final FCC Orders on the requirements for
Special Access Data and
Rural Call Completion. These changes are broad in nature and are expected to have a lasting effect on carriers.
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Topics:
rural call completion,
Compliance Reporting,
special access