Letter

Mercury Wireless Indiana and Mercury Broadband request a limited waiver of the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund’s (“RDOF”) service milestone and non-compliance rules in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. Consistent with Wireline Competition Bureau precedent, Mercury requests limited relief similar to that provided to other carriers that have relinquished some, but not all, of their RDOF-funded support.

So that we may better understand the Federal Communications Commission’s actions regarding the Nexstar-Tegna transaction, please provide written responses to the following questions no later than April 13, 2026:

The illegality of your authoritarian management of the Federal Communications Commission is exacerbated by the fact that President Trump has asserted unprecedented executive branch control over this agency.

Just as the ’96 Act benefitted from years of work in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission focused on the economics and technologies of the then-upcoming transition to digital networks prior to the passage of the legislation, the FCC needs to be forward-looking and contemplate the FCC’s role in the AI transition. Further, as the ’96 Act was the last time the federal government overhauled how it regulated a critical sector with a different approach and multiple rule changes, it is the most important example to examine as we contemplate how best to respond to the AI transition

House Commerce Committee Democratic leaders wrote a follow-up letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration demanding that it abide by the law and disperse Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program funding as intended by Congress—after not receiving any response to an initial letter 

Assistant Secretary for Telecommunications and Information Arielle Roth wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to request that the FCC seek public comment on new or updated Knowledge Database guidance to ensure protection of the ensure protection of the GPS L1 signal at 1575.42 MHz.

We write to request that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) preserve the current rules, power levels, and frameworks governing the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band (3.55–3.70 GHz) to protect rural and Tribal broadband, promote military readiness, and support American manufacturing. CBRS’s low-power, shared-spectrum model has become vital infrastructure nationwide, with network hardware produced from American design, construction, and investment. Today, there are over 422,000 active CBRS radio devices deployed across the country.

The Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) sent a letter to National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator Arielle Roth, urging the NTIA to allow states to use remaining Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Programfunds for wireless and mobility projects to complement approved BEAD fixed deployments and more fully connect rural America.

The Pew Charitable Trusts submitted comments on February 18 to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), urging the agency to issue timely and clear guidance that will allow states to spend Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program funds that are not used for broadband network construction—also known as nondeployment funds. The submission followed a February 11 NTIA 

RiverStreet Communications of Virginia submitted its eleventh quarterly report associated with the gap in meeting its December 31, 2022, interim milestone obligation for its Connect American Fund Phase II (CAF II) auction support (Compliance Gap).