Chairman Kevin Martin’s trip to Denmark this week may have held u...
Chairman Kevin Martin’s trip to Denmark this week may have held up an FCC order on submarine cable regulatory fees, said an industry official close to the proceeding. Martin was in Copenhagen at a Danish government-sponsored conference on open…
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networks regulation and wireless innovation. The submarine cable item hasn’t circulated among commissioners, despite the FCC promising to release a final order this week, an agency official confirmed Thursday. Now the order isn’t expected until next week, the industry source said. Two months ago, in an order on regulatory fees, the commission gave itself 60 days to address submarine cable systems. The issue hasn’t been controversial since submarine cable operators found consensus with Verizon and AT&T last month (CD Sept 29 p11).