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Click on the Headline of Interest to go to the Article - An Update - AB518 Compliance Rulemaking WTA Urges FCC To Retain High Cost USF Program Virtually In Present Form OPASTCO Releases White Paper Studying Revenue Sources For Rural Local Exchange Carriers Fiber-to-the-Home Council Applauds Introduction of "100 Megabit Nation" Resolution in U.S. House State Regulators Urge FCC for Partnership, not Preemption, in Wireless ETF Debate U.S. Court of Appeals Cable Franchise Ruling FCC NEWS Quarterly Report on Informal Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Released Local Competition and Broadband Reporting Form Modified FCC Proposes 11.4% USF Contribution Factor for 3rd Qtr. 2008 FCC Publishes Statistical Report on ILECs FCC’s Inspector General Releases Semiannual Report FCC Approves NECA’s Proposed FY 2008 Average Schedule Formulas Rep. Joe Barton introduced H.R.6356, the Universal Service Reform, Accountability, and Efficiency Act of 2008, which calls for a permanent cap on the entire Universal Service Fund and requires the FCC to institute a reverse auction program to implement support from the USF.New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008 - HR 3403 sent to the President for Signing.
PLACE YOUR AD HERE! CONTACT US WARNING!!! Convention deadlines are closer than they appear! If you haven't registered, please remember that discounted rates are only good until July 22nd, so please register as soon as possible. Harvey's Lake Tahoe has made it SO EASY to register for a room under our group code. Click here to secure your room today, as the cut off for the room block ends July 22nd. We may be celebrating our 50th anniversary, but we're also celebrating 20 years of providing scholarship awards from our John & Mary Louise Christian Scholarship Fund. It would be wonderful if we could receive donations or silent auction items from all of our members. Let's make this the best fundraising effort by lending your support and items for sale. Contact us for shipping address. AB518 Compliance Rulemaking - Docket No. 07-06016 An update Docket No. 07-06016. Since July of 2007, AT&T, Embarq, Verizon, NTA, some rural telecommunications companies along with CLECs and cable companies have been working diligently on amendments to the Nevada Administrative Code to adhere with the edicts of AB 518 that was passed in the 2007 Legislature. To see all documents pertaining to this docket go to
PHASE V - Universal Service Fund - Latest Status: Proposed language, comments and reply comments were submitted by the parties in April. A workshop scheduled for May 1, 2008 was cancelled and has been rescheduled for July 30, 2008. Doug Cooley, Legislative and Regulatory Mgr. for CenturyTel-Nevada and NTA Director has elected to leave CenturyTel and go to work for Comcast in Salem, Oregon. His replacement will be announced at a later date. Cooley writes, "It has been great working with you and making many friends in Nevada and I wish you all the best." The NTA extends our best wishes to him as well.
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