[1st-mile-nm] FTTH Council: Webinar

[Richard Lowenberg]

The Fiber to the Home Council - Special Webinar:

Expanding Rural FTTH: The FCC's Proposed Experiments

Thursday, February 6, 2014 @ noon EST

REGISTER HERE: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/143145946


On January 30th, the Federal Communications Commission announced a 
series of initiatives designed to forward the transition of telecom 
networks from legacy TDM-based to IP-based.  As part of these 
initiatives, the FCC emphasized that it wanted all Americans to benefit 
from this transition, including those living in rural areas.  To that 
end, the FCC has called for entities to submit expressions of interest 
in providing high capacity broadband to rural areas in both price cap 
and rate of return territories. Most importantly, the FCC is encouraging 
participation in these experiments from as many different entities as 
possible including incumbents, competitive LECs, munis and utilities.  
Join our special presenter, Jonathan Chambers, Chief of the FCC's Office 
of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, as he discusses how you can 
participate in this exciting opportunity to bring greater bandwidth to 
rural areas and supply the FCC with valuable information as to the 
direction they should consider for universal service support going 
forward.

FTTH Council President, Heather Burnett Gold and counsel Tom Cohen from 
Kelley Drye will join Jon in this review.

The deadline for non-binding expressions of interest will be March 7th.

THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE HOW USF IS USED AND DISTRIBUTED 
GOING FORWARD - IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT AS MANY ENTITIES AS POSSIBLE 
PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCESS. JOIN US TO LEARN HOW!



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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir.
1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
www.1st-mile.org  rl at 1st-mile.org
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