2011 Legal and Regulatory Filings

December

ITTA Seeks Reconsideration of Certain Aspects of the FCC’s USF/ICC Reform Order.

ITTA weighs in on legislation to reform the 1992 Cable Act.

ITTA Endorses Legislation to Protect Broadband Providers and Consumers From Cyber Threats.

October

ITTA issues following statement following the FCC’s vote to reform USF/ICC.

ITTA Advocates Industry Self-Regulation To Address Cramming Concerns.

ITTA Seeks FCC Clarification of Proposed IP Captioning Requirements.

ITTA confirms with FCC that the right-of-first-refusal (ROFR) is critical to USF/ICC reform.

September

ITTA Joins with OPASTCO, NTCA, WTA, and RICA in Urging the FCC to Address Barriers to Regional Sports Programming Access.

ITTA Outlines Proposed Modifications to Industry USF/ICC Proposals to Address Needs of Mid-Size Carriers and Their Customers.

ITTA files reply comments on USF/ICC that urges the FCC to make further modifications to the ABC Plan so that all consumers served by mid-size carriers will receive the benefit of broadband.

August

ITTA along with HickoryTech, Hargray Communications, and Cincinnati Bell file comments to reform USF and ICC.

July

ITTA Comments on Industry USF/ICC Plan

May

ITTA joins with OPASTCO, NTCA, and WTA in encouraging the FCC to reform the broken Retransmission Consent Rules.

April

ITTA FILES COMPREHENSIVE USF/ICC COMMENTS WITH THE FCC

ITTA Open Internet PRA Comments ITTA files with OMB that the Open Internet Order will produce excessive and out of proportion burdens for mid-sized carriers.

February

ACA-ITTA Letter In Support of Resolution Addressing Content Neutrality ITTA joins with the American Cable Association (ACA) urging state regulators to adopt video content neutrality for rural cable and telephone companies.

News

(May 15) ITTA stresses the importance of Universal Service contribution reform in a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee

(May 2) ITTA Files Comments Supporting FairPoint’s Petition for Conversion to Price Cap Regulation and for Limited Waiver Relief

(Apr 30) ITTA Files Letter in Connection with NCTA’s Request for Relief from the Cable-CLEC Cross-Ownership Restriction

(Apr 12) ITTA, NECA, NTCA, OPASTCO, ERTA, and WTA File Reply Comments Supporting the FCC's Proposal to Extend the Separations Freeze

(Apr 5) ITTA, NECA, NTCA, OPASTCO, ERTA, and WTA File Joint Comments Supporting the FCC's Proposal to Extend the Separations Freeze

(Apr 2) ITTA Files Comments Regarding the FCC's Reform of the Lifeline Program

(Mar 30) ITTA, CenturyLink, Frontier and Windstream Supplement Their Proposal Regarding FCC's Implementation of CAF Phase I

(Mar 30) ITTA Files Reply Comments Regarding the FCC's Implementation of Intercarrier Compensation Reforms

(Mar 27) ITTA commends the House of Representative for passing HR 3309, the FCC Reform Process bill

(Mar 9) ITTA Forms Video Task Force

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