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FCC Approves TRS Fund Contribution Factors
July 9, 2025 |Wireline

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau established the total funding requirement and approved contribution factors for the interstate telecommunications relay services (TRS) fund for a one-year period ending June 30, 2026. The FCC previously took comments (see 2506090018). Contribution factors determine the amounts that carriers and other covered service providers must contribute to the fund.

Topics:Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
NTCA Raises Rural Deployment, Rights-of-Way Concerns at FCC
July 7, 2025 |Wireline

NTCA representatives met with FCC Wireline Bureau staff to discuss the challenges carriers face as they maintain or build and upgrade broadband networks in rural areas. “These can include low densities, long distances from urban areas, mountainous and rocky terrain, workforce challenges, and weather-shortened construction seasons,” said a filing Wednesday in docket 17-84. “These challenges are exacerbated by time-consuming and expensive permitting processes at the local, state, and federal levels that inhibit their ability to serve their rural communities.”

Incompas Members Discuss Deployment Issues With FCC Staff
July 3, 2025 |Wireline

Incompas and some of its members met with FCC Wireline Bureau staff on infrastructure issues, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 17-84. Among the companies represented were Crown Castle, C-Spire, Arcadian Infracom, PBI Fiber and Zayo. Incompas members “discussed the substantial investments in infrastructure and technologies they have made to deliver competitive communications services to customers in urban, suburban, and rural communities across the country,” the filing said. “Members also described current state and local permitting and franchising requirements, including the timelines and costs impacting broadband deployment. We also provided examples of variances in these requirements between jurisdictions.”

Dobson Asks to Withdraw Discontinuance Application, Saying Approval Isn't Needed
July 3, 2025 |Wireline

Dobson Telephone asked to withdraw an application filed last week seeking to discontinue three varieties of legacy wholesale telecommunications services in Oklahoma. “Upon further review, and in light of the Commission’s 2017 Order in Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, Dobson Telephone has determined that Commission approval is not required for its proposed discontinuance,” said an undocketed filing posted Wednesday. Dobson’s “affected services are provided solely on a wholesale basis to carrier-customers, and thus fall within the wholesale exception clarified by the Commission for upstream carriers.”

Study: Subsea Cable Repair Ships Require $3 Billion Infusion
July 2, 2025 |Wireline

The number of subsea cables is set to increase 48% by 2040, but 66% of cable maintenance ships will reach the end of their service life by then, TeleGeography and Infra-Analytics said in a study released Monday. It will take $3 billion to sustain current service levels and avoid repair delays through the acquisition of 15 replacement and five new vessels, they said.