CommLaw Monitor
FCC Extends Regulatory Fee Deadline Until Friday
If you missed last night's deadline for making FCC regulatory fee payments, there's good news. The FCC extended the deadline by 48 hours; Fees are now due by September 16 at 11:59 pm . Late payments after that date…
USF Contribution Factor Again Tops 15%
Today the FCC announced the proposed universal service contribution factor for the fourth quarter of 2011. Based in large part on recently revised projections showing an increase in low income demand (largely due to…
Two FCC Commissioners Signal Support for Extension of Outage Reporting to VoIP
Yesterday, the FCC held its "Workshop/Webinar" on the pending proposal to extend the outage reporting requirements to interconnected VoIP and to broadband service providers. We've noted several times that the FCC staff…
Does the Ooma Outage Portend of New FCC Rules?
Interconnected VoIP provider Ooma suffered a three-hour outage late last week. Ooma identified the cause of the outage as "an extremely rare power failure at a portion of our data center," but the effect of the outage…
E-rate Gift Rules Continue to Confuse
Last September, the FCC adopted new rules governing gifts received by applicants for disbursements under the FCC's Schools and Libraries program of the Universal Service Fund (known as the "e-rate" program). Although…