Municipalities and utility cooperatives often generally understand the local licensing and permitting, zoning, environmental and other regulatory requirements that apply to complex projects of various stripes. But the myriad federal and state statutes, regulations and procedures governing major fiber and wireless broadband and telecommunications projects and networks present new, interrelated, often unexpected, and usually very difficult challenges for aspiring owners and operators of new or upgraded broadband networks. One simple but important example: virtually all major federal broadband grant and subsidy programs require broadband network provider applicants to also offer and provide voice telephone service, with all of that service’s burdensome regulatory requirements, to all prospective customers.
As a critical component of its turnkey Broadband Orchestration™, BBB is able to offer clients the highest expertise to identify, guide, negotiate, troubleshoot—and solve—the morass of regulatory and compliance hurdles that accompanies all modern broadband network projects. BBB’s principals have a combined 100+ years of experience in successfully navigating a panoply of federal and state regulatory and compliance shoals for clients in every aspect of the domestic and international telecommunications and information sectors. We have successfully represented clients at every level of government, from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and State and local Public Utility Commissions, to Congress, the White House and executive branch agencies and contractors including the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS), and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC).
New broadband network projects, whether perceived to be complex or relatively simple, present many different and unexpected regulatory and compliance issues on the path from inception to providing service to customers. BBB assists and empowers municipalities and utility cooperatives to surmount all hurdles on the path to providing best in class high-speed broadband and telecom services to satisfied customers.