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Navigating the Broadband Sea
“We have the ability to bring back some more balance to the laws and regulations to help smaller businesses to encourage them to invest more,” says Matt Polka, president and CEO of the American Cable Association. Speaking at NCTC’s Winter Education Conference, Polka is hopeful that the new administration and associated changes at the FCC will…
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A Spaghetti Plate Full of FCC Rules
Set-tops, broadband privacy and retransmission consent rules were some of the topics discussed on a panel at The Independent Show moderated by ACA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Ross Lieberman. In the above interview, Lieberman provides highlights of the panel: He reiterates ACA’s estimate that the costs of implementing the order could mean the closure…
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Broadband, Broadband, Broadband – Keep On, Keeping On
“It’s always the same story, but this time to the nth degree”, said ACA president and CEO, Matt Polka. Speaking at the conclusion of the 2016 Independent Show, Polka explained how the regulatory environment has been particularly challenging this year as the FCC’s has been advancing new and changing regulations in a number of areas such…
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Common Sense Approach to End Child Identity Theft
Customer Service Agent: “Someone, and I don’t know who, they have [an] account in your name.” Customer: “It was probably my mother.” The above excerpt is an example of a problem that David Howe, president of SubscriberWise, sees way too often in his other role as credit manager for MCTV, an Ohio-based, last-mile provider of…
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Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Small Rural Telecom
As if an ever-changing communications regulatory environment isn’t enough, some small, private telecommunications companies are also having to deal with regulations spawned from the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. As background and according to the SEC website, Sarbanes-Oxley, “mandated a number of reforms to enhance corporate responsibility, enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting fraud, and created…
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What Will the Rules Say?
NTCA’s Senior Vice President of Policy, Mike Romano, discusses what we might expect from the impending FCC order regarding universal service funding of broadband. He suggests that the order won’t be perfect and will need tweaking, but is hopeful that the order will improve regulatory certainty. He also addresses an anticipated FCC Notice of Proposed Rule…
