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Draft NPRM: Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

Draft NPRM: Rural Digital Opportunity Fund

Tony Veach
Broadband, Broadband Deployment, ETC, FCC, Fiber, ISPs, Rural Broadband, Spectrum, Universal Service, USF, Wireline, Wireless, WISP, RDOF

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced that the FCC will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking during its August open meeting to formally establish the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. The RDOF is planned to provide $20.4 billion over the next 10 years to support the construction of broadband networks in areas that lack access to broadband service at speeds of at least 25/3 Mbps.

Going Granular! The FCC’s New Digital Opportunity Data Collection Expected To Improve Broadband Mapping

Going Granular! The FCC’s New Digital Opportunity Data Collection Expected To Improve Broadband Mapping

Tony Veach
Broadband, Broadband Deployment, FCC, ISPs, Rural Broadband, Satellite, USF, WISP, FCC Form 477, Broadband Mapping

The FCC has released a draft Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking aimed at collecting more accurate broadband deployment data and producing more precise broadband maps. In the Report and Order, the FCC creates the Digital Opportunity Data Collection, a new initiative distinct from the Form 477 process, which will require all fixed broadband providers to submit coverage polygons depicting the areas where they actually provide service. The FCC also adopts a process to begin collecting public input on the accuracy of service providers’ broadband deployment data. The FCC expects to vote to adopt the item during its August 1st open meeting.

Death Blow: Texas Court Strips ISP Grande Communications Of DMCA Safe Harbor Defense

Death Blow: Texas Court Strips ISP Grande Communications Of DMCA Safe Harbor Defense

Tony Veach
Broadband, Copyright, DMCA, ISPs

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled that Texas-based Internet service provider Grande Communications Networks, LLC may not use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbor as part of its defense against a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by a group of record labels. The case is now set to move to trial, where the record companies are seeking to hold Grande secondarily liable for over one million instances of direct copyright infringement by Grande broadband subscribers.

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