Public Notice

The Universal Service Administrative Company submitted the contribution base amount to be used for the third quarter of calendar year 2025 (3Q2025). The total projected collected interstate and international end-user revenue base to determine the contribution factor for the Universal Service support mechanisms for 3Q2025 is $8,045,954,273. 

The Federal Communications Commission grants blanket authority under section 214(a) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, for carriers to grandfather interconnected VoIP services provisioned over copper lines and waives the associated requirement to file an application with the FCC under our discontinuance rules. The FCC also waives, for two years, the need for carriers applying for section 214(a) discontinuance authority to follow the testing methodology and parameters described in the 2016 Technology Transitions Order and its Technical Appendix.

Over 33,000 households in Oakland are estimated not to have residential broadband internet service. Deep, active community engagement starting during the pandemic shed light on the root causes of this digital divide: Internet affordability, access, and performance are the main barriers. Meanwhile, a duopolistic marketplace has resulted in a lack of investment in broadband infrastructure, leaving many Oaklanders paying more for less while the problems persist.

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced that there is sufficient funding available to fully meet the Universal Service Administrative Company’s (USAC) estimated demand for category one and category two requests for E-Rate-supported services for funding year 2025. On March 27, 2025, USAC submitted a demand estimate for the E-Rate program for funding year 2025.  USAC estimates the total demand for funding year 2025 will be $3.225 billion, which includes estimated demand for category one services of $1.806 billion, and of $1.418 billion for catego

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau approved Verizon’s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier by granting a series of applications that transfer FCC licenses and
 authorizations. The merger:

The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) granted a limited waiver of the support reduction schedule for certain recipients of Connect America Fund (CAF) high-cost support that missed the July 1, 2024 network performance testing certification deadline. The Bureau finds good cause to consider a carrier to have certified its network performance testing based on when it contacted the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) about its certification.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in partnership with the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, is seeking public input on how best to advance a seamless, secure, and patient-centered digital health infrastructure. The request for information invites input from patients, caregivers, providers, payers, technology developers, and other stakeholders on how CMS and ASTP/ONC can: 

The Federal Communications Commission moved to terminate over 2,000 official proceedings that have become dormant and no longer serve a purpose for the American people. In particular, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau is seeking public comment on reasons not to terminate these dockets that have been identified by staff from around the agency as inactive or moot. Nearly 100 other dockets were closed administratively in advance of the release.

The Federal Communications Commission announced guidance is available on the FCC’s website for carriers that will transition from reporting in the High Cost Universal Broadband portal the geographic coordinates and addresses associated with the locations where they offer service meeting their high-cost support requirements, to reporting the Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric Location IDs associated with these locations based on a list of eligible Location IDs for each carrier. In the High-Cost Fabric Order, the FCC explained that Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Bringing Puerto Rico Toget

It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals. Given the limited enforcement resources of executive departments and agencies (agencies), the unlawfulness of disparate-impact liability, and the policy of this order, all agencies shall deprioritize enforcement of all statutes and regulations to the extent they include disparate-impact liability. Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General, in coor