| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2001 - 888 lapas
...goal that consumers in all regions of the nation, including rural, insular and high cost areas, should have access to telecommunications and information...rates charged for similar services in urban areas. 3. Consistent with the will of Congress, we have taken numerous steps over the last four 1 See Federal-State... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 1998 - 716 lapas
...all regions of the Nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high cost areas . . . have access to telecommunications and...comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas"3 and to "establish competitively neutral rules ... to enhance, to the extent technically feasible... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2005 - 1006 lapas
...all regions of the Nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high cost areas . . . have access to telecommunications and...comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas."99 In its White Papei', PRTC argues that the reference to "insular" in the statute was specifically... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2005 - 1156 lapas
...things, that consumers in rural, insular, and high-cost areas should have access to telecommunications services at rates that are "reasonably comparable...rates charged for similar services in urban areas." 47 USC § 254(bX3). 37 We note that Adak Telephone requests high-cost loop support effective January... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2006 - 618 lapas
...public or nonprofit health care provider that serves persons who reside in rural areas in that State at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas in that State."4 Congress also directed the Commission to enhance access to advanced telecommunications... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 1999 - 608 lapas
...rural areas in this instance rural health care providers have access to telecommunications services "at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas."1 With respect to the companion order on eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs), I support... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2004 - 848 lapas
...telecommunications and information services that are reasonably comparable to those available in urban areas and at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas." With this declaration, Congress reaffirmed universal service as one of the bedrock principles of US... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2004 - 748 lapas
...telecommunications carriers are required to offer telecommunications services to rural health care providers at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas in that state.132 To determine the amount of universal service support rural health care providers... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 2005 - 886 lapas
...public or nonprofit health care provider that serves persons who reside in rural areas in that State at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas in that State."71 Congress also provided the Commission with 63 See 47 CFR § 54.60 l(aX2Xii), (iv).... | |
| United States. Federal Communications Commission - 1998 - 808 lapas
...that: 1) quality services are available at just, reasonable and affordable rates; 2) all consumers have "access to telecommunications and information...services" at rates that are reasonably comparable to the rates charged for similar services in urban areas; and 3) there are "specific. predictable, and... | |
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