Many telecommunications companies and their regulators wonder whether we can afford everything we are asking companies to do. Companies are adding customers and keeping existing customers connected even when they don't pay, adding network capacity to accommodate increased traffic, and altering service parameters to facilitate working from home and distance learning. And they are making [...]
Commissioner Michael O’Rielly of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was our guest for the fifth Next Practices Live. We at PURC are grateful that he took time out of his overly busy schedule to share what the FCC is doing and learning during this unprecedented pandemic. In addition to describing the FCC’s responses to [...]
The coronavirus pandemic is creating unique problems for every sector of the economy, and the telecom industry and governments are working together to meet the challenge. Read the full post "Telcos working with governments to address COVID-19" at AEI.
We are all in uncharted territory. How are you managing it? For their part, telecom operators and their regulators worldwide are partnering with governments to address the COVID 19 pandemic. But since this is the worst pandemic in over 100 years, there are no best practices. We’ve not been down this road before. David Cox, [...]