The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved the full initial proposals for American Samoa, Idaho, and North Dakota for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. American Samoa will have access to more than $37 million, Idaho will have access to more than $583 million, and North Dakota will have
Earlier this week, the FCC opened CORES to accept FY 2024 regulatory fee payments and announced a payment deadline of September 26, 2024. Since that time, however, broadcasters have encountered a number of issues when trying to pay their fees. The most common issues include:
After postponing consideration of a proposal (which we wrote about here) from the Republican Commissioners at the Federal Election Commission to reject calls for a rulemaking to look at whether to require that there be labeling of political ads generated by artificial intelligence that falsely depicts a candidate, the AI item is back on
The FCC’s Office of Managing Director has announced that the proposed universal service contribution factor for the fourth quarter of 2024 will be 35.8 percent, an increase from the previous quarter. The Commission calculates the quarterly contribution factor based on the ratio of total projected quarterly costs of the universal service support mechanisms to contributor’s
Update – 9/13/2024 – We are hearing that fee increases being reported by many radio stations may not have resulted, as we speculate below, on the use of new census data, but instead from incorrect FCC calculations. If your fees went up unexpectedly, you may want to investigate further to see if the population covered
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Census Bureau (Agencies) have announced the Local Estimates of Internet Adoption (Project LEIA). The project aims at improving the Agencies’ understanding of the digital divide at the local level. The Agencies have also released an experimental, single-year estimate of household wired Internet adoption for every
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has issued Notices of Apparently Liability to nine companies for failing to file mandatory broadband availability and subscription data in the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection system following multiple notices by the Commission. All facilities-based providers of fixed or mobile broadband internet access service are required by the FCC to submit availability
The FCC has issued a Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL), alleging that SprintFone Inc.; IJ Wireless, Inc.; Culture Wireless LLC; and Cathect Communications, Inc. allegedly failed to submit certified complete Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) plan and subscribership data in apparent violation of the Commission’s ACP Transparency Data Collection (TDC) rules. The Commission alleges that such
The Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) has released a Public Notice announcing that the 15-day filing window for applications from entities seeking designation by the Commission as a Cybersecurity Labeling Administrator (CLA) and Lead Administrator under the Cybersecurity Labeling for Internet of Things (IoT) Program (Program) will open on
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has issued a Public Notice announcing that Qwest Corporation and CenturyTel of Wyoming, Inc. (collectively Lumen) have withdrawn from the RDOF program in all census block groups covered by their winning bids in New Mexico, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Now these census block groups are eligible for other federal and
