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In FCC Docket 21-476 the industry is debating the future of the Universal Service Fund (USF). There is widespread agreement that the contribution base should remain revenues based but should widen to include revenues from broadband Internet access services
It could be argued that in these days of war in Ukraine and the ever-increasing cyber threats to the United States that the most important job for the FCC is to keep our telecommunications networks safe.
The FCC is required to help implement the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Act) which became law late last year. Specifically, the Commission has until November of 2023 to implement section 60506 of the Act, which states:
There is nothing more important to the current FCC then bringing workable broadband service to the most Americans possible.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has heightened fears that Russia will unleash a cyberattack on America due to the economic sanctions we are imposing on them.
The FCC continues to operate with four commissioners with a fifth not yet in sight. Therefore, it continues to be limited to pursuing non-controversial issues in which it can easily achieve consensus.
In a Report and Order (Order) released February 15, 2022, in Docket 17-142, the FCC takes steps to bring more broadband competition to multi-tenant environments (MTEs) including apartments, condominiums or other multi-tenant building
There is no question ISPs are feeling under attack. The Biden administration has made it clear that as soon as a new FCC commissioner is approved, a sham proceeding will be held which will result in ultra-strict Internet regulation that will include net neutrality and Title II price regulation.
In its never-ending mission to make its universal service programs more efficient, the FCC will use its February 18, 2022, meeting to initiate a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) in Docket 17-310 to improve the Rural Health Care (RHC) Program.
In one of the least surprising decisions ever, a three-judge panel of the ultra-liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco unanimously found in a January 28, 2022, opinion, that California’s Net Neutrality Law (SB-822) requiring ISPs to treat all web traffic equally was legally enacted.