Introduction In 1996 the United States Government passed 47 U.S.C. [section] 251, better known as the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (1) The purpose of this act was to help break up the Bell Telephone monopoly and create a more competitive telecommunications marketplace. (2) This purpose was primarily accomplished by...
A fundamental transformation is taking place in the basic approach to regulating network industries. Policy makers are in the process of abandoning their century-old commitment to rate regulation in favor of a new regulatory approach known as access regulation. Rather than controlling the price of outputs,...
Karen Guthrie King will work as a director of government relations for the Personal Communications Industry Association, where she will represent the association on a variety of advocacy efforts, including interconnection, the Federal Communications Commission's Indian Telecommunications Training Initiative, and PCIA's Global Initiative. King has...
WASHINGTON--The federal government is on the verge of taking an action that the wireless industry says will set back years of progress. According to some sources, the FCC's impending decision will make a number of parties unhappy and even prepared to go to...
What do you call a group of regulators? A convocation, according to FCC Chairman William Kennard. Or so he said at a speech to a gathering of world telecom regulators in November that was most notable for the way it didn't address any of the issues that his audience wanted...
The rapid evolution of wireless technologies and the convergence of wireless and computing has pushed PCIA to take a new tack with regulators and legislators, and head for the future. WASHINGTON--Call it an aperture adjustment. As new Internet and data applications are...
The FCC has given state regulators more time to undertake geographic deaveraging -- a process that requires states to establish at least three different rate zones for unbundled network elements and interconnection. Under an FCC order issued Friday, deaveraging will be delayed until at least six months after the...
LAW AND DISORDER IN CYBERSPACE: ABOLISH THE FCC AND LET COMMON LAW RULE THE TELECOSM. By Peter Huber. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. Pp. xv, 265. $30. INTRODUCTION "Wrong in interesting ways," counts for high praise among academics. Peter Huber's(1)...
M2 PRESSWIRE-25 September 1998-U.S. FCC: John Nakahata, Chief of Staff FCC speech at PCS Latin America '98 C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:230998 Good morning. It is a real pleasure and an honor to join you this morning to kick off the...
CTIA and several of its members intervened in this case in support of the FCC's decision to defer the issue to a subsequent proceeding, contending that cellular resellers do not have a "right" to interconnection.In a unanimous decision, the panel of three judges reaffirmed the principle that the FCC has...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has denied the petition by the Telecommunications Resellers Association TRA, CSI and ComTech to review the FCC order which affirmed the commission's earlier decision to defer to a later proceeding the issue of whether cellular resellers have a right to interconnect...
The 60-member trade group, in a brief filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, wants to overturn a Dec. 20, 1996, FCC decision in which the agency took no action on the matter of interconnection as it relates to wireless carriers."In long-distance and local exchange services,...
"It is significant that in a ruling which principally restrains the FCC, the court recognized congressional mandate that wireless oversight is at the federal, not the state level. We hope this endorsement of such authority will encourage the FCC to be more assertive in limiting state and local interference with...
"I wouldn't classify it as a setback but as another delay in resolving this issue," said David Gusky, executive director of the National Wireless Resellers Association NWRA, referring to an FCC decision to dismiss petitions for reconsideration. "They completely dodged the issue, which is whether carriers have the obligation to...
Even though interconnection is only one issue of a trilogy, the ruling made waves throughout the telecom industry. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association spokesman Tim Ayers shared three good points to the Interconnection Order and two negative points. On the positive side, he said, the Order:1. "Removes the anti-competitive nature of...
These states argue that they cannot regulate CMRS-LEC interconnection because under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, regulation of the wireless industry is left solely in the hands of the FCC, according to a white paper by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association CTIA. The association filed the paper with...
For CMRS-LEC interconnection through dedicated transmission facilities, the commission proposed a compensation plan based on existing flat-rate access charges for similar facilities. The FCC further proposed that CMRS providers be allowed to recover access charges from interexchange carriers in the same manner the LECs do.Telcos generally have opposed bill-and-keep compensation...
The question of whether equal access obligations should be extended to all commercial mobile radio service CMRS providers will not be solved overnight, as interexchange carriers and some cellular companies stand in different corners, firmly committed to opposing sides of the issue. A group of service providers and FCC Wireless...
The FCC has extended until Sept. 12 and Oct. 13 the respective deadlines for comments and replies on equal access and interconnection issues regarding commercial mobile radio services CMRS. Both GTE Services Corp. and the Rural Cellular Association had requested an extension of time in which to file comments...
Deciding how to rewrite Sections 3n and 332 of the Communications Act remains one of the many important tasks the FCC must face, as companies recently filed reply comments with the goal of establishing regulatory treatment for mobile services (Gen. Doc. 93-252). In the sets of comments and reply comments...
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