ABC Cost Model Access Widened
Sep 29, 2011 Comments Off ABC MediaAn enhanced access cost model associated with America’s Broadband Connectivity Plan is now available, according to an ex parte filed by the ABC companies last night. The model was made available to the public for free on Sept. 9. The expanded level of access will enable users to produce reports based on the ABC plan inputs. ...
Continue ReadingLet’s Get Back to Fundamentals
Sep 22, 2011 Comments Off Walter B. McCormick Jr., USTelecomIt has been two months since the unveiling of America’s Broadband Connectivity Plan, a sweeping set of proposed reforms to update the universal service and intercarrier compensation programs. The plan took long months of difficult work to put together, but its aim is simple: bring broadband to rural Americans by targeting areas that are ...
Continue ReadingABC Plan would help Rural Areas, Senate Staffers told
Sep 22, 2011 Comments Off ABC MediaAmerica’s Broadband Connectivity Plan for reforming universal service and intercarrier competition will stimulate investment in rural areas because it offers certainty, Randy Tyree, legislative director of the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies, told Senate staff members at a Sept. 21 briefing by plan supporters. The plan’s goals are to ...
Continue ReadingCapitol Hill Staffers Briefed on ABC Plan
Sep 13, 2011 Comments Off ABC MediaAmerica’s Broadband Connectivity Plan for reforming universal service and intercarrier compensation is a “huge step in the right direction, and will be a real benefit for rural America,” National Grange Legislative Director Nicole Payla Wood told Capitol Hill staffers today at a Rural Caucus briefing. “We see rural America as a minority group when it ...
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