Topic
Business Data Services
6 published works
Rural Spectrum Scanner
WCB Announces Posting of 2025 Tariff Review Plan Workbooks
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has released a Public Notice announcing that the 2025 tariff review plan (TRP) workbooks are available for rate-of-return local exchange carriers that elected incentive regulation…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Proposes to Eliminate BDS Rate Regulation and Tariffing Obligations
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that launches a review of the Commission’s business data services rules. Specifically, in light of marketplace and…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
Additional BDS Carriers Transition to Incentive Regulation
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has released a Public Notice announcing that rate-of-return local exchange carriers have elected, in 120 study areas, to transition their business data services offerings from…
CommLaw Monitor
FCC Moves to Further Deregulate Business Data Services
By Kelley Drye
Nearly a year after it ordered sweeping deregulation of the business data services (“BDS”) market, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) proposed new rules that would allow certain small rural carriers…
CommLaw Monitor
Sprint and Windstream Waste No Time Appealing Business Data Services Order
On May 8, 2017, merely ten days after the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted its Report & Order (“BDS Order”) deregulating the market for Business Data Services (“BDS”), Sprint and…
CommLawBlog
Major Changes in the Works on the Business Data Services (a/k/a Special Access Services) Front
By Tony Lee
Investigation of BDS tariff provisions, further data analysis lead to new standards and a proposed new regulatory regime The market for special access service – also known by some (including…