The rapid evolution of the telecommunications industry has left many communications providers facing an increasingly complex host of federal and state rules and regulations. Rest assured: Our team of former government officials and industry veterans is here to provide your company with all of the essential advice, strategies, and solutions that it needs to stay ahead of these changes and remain in compliance at all times.
JSI has been a trusted advisor and preferred business partner to hundreds of independently owned communications providers for 60 years. Discover today how the complete range of business development consulting services offered by our expert team can help your company make the most of your competitive opportunities and challenges.
Successfully expanding telecommunications services requires strategic business plans, network assessments, market analyses and pricing, affiliate and interconnection agreements, and regulatory support, among other things. Learn how JSI’s team of industry experts can provide you with all of the critical advice and support that you need to ensure your company’s success at every stage of its expansion.
The Broadband IP Network Design process builds upon the plan by digging deeper into quantifiable elements, including potential facility sizes and placement locations, subscriber counts, utilization of existing assets, and other applicable project elements to generate initial cost estimates and illustrative documentation such as design maps and diagrams. As part of our comprehensive network design services, JSI’s expert ISP engineers will also help you to identify, evaluate, and deploy broadband and telecommunications technology.
As part of our Information Technology & Security services, JSI’s ISP engineers will assist you with transit and peering interconnections, BGP provisioning, server design and configuration, IP address securement and assignments, IPv4 to IPv6 transitioning, network monitoring, on-site and remote support, CALEA support, hosted services, routing design and optimization, MPLS circuit provisioning, and carrier Ethernet aggregation.
With JSI’s IP Technology service, our information technology and security group supports internet service providers (ISPs) by assisting them with:
• Layer 2/3 (switching and routing) areas
• ISP server design and configuration
• Full range of security services including:
• DDoS attack mitigation
• Cybersecurity audits
• Back office and LAN/WAN services
Rest assured: JSI’s premier outside plant (OSP) engineering team strives to find the most cost-effective approach possible when designing and implementing a fiber-optic network. Discover how our engineers can deliver the network services and solutions you need to succeed – today, tomorrow, and in the years to come.
At JSI, our Project Management & Implementation services are designed not only to satisfy the terms of a particular construction contract, but also to enhance our client’s peace of mind by incorporating appropriate checks and balances into the project and ensuring that the final product does, in fact, exceed the applicable contract specifications.
Our Carrier Access Billing & Order Management solutions were specifically developed to meet the needs of service providers in a dynamic and rapidly changing industry, JSI not only has the expertise to assist clients in finding an access billing system that meets their needs, but it also has the ability to provide the monitoring and collection services to protect their clients’ access revenues. Further, with the increasing number and types of service providers, it is more important than ever to have an effective order management process in place.
As part of the comprehensive list of network engineering solutions that we offer our clients, JSI will oversee the actual deployment and acceptance of broadband and telecommunications technologies, and our team will even offer clients troubleshooting assistance as part of our commitment to delivering end-to-end solutions.
Rest assured: with JSI’s popular NOC+ network-management subscription service, you can expect:
• Network resources to help you grow your business and sleep well at night
• Expert engineers to monitor and support your network on a 24/7 basis
• Technology to identify emerging network issues before they become problems
The rapid-fire A-CAM challenge process will conclude on Thursday, April 28. Before time runs out, JSI wishes to clarify some of the confusing aspects of the challenge process to ensure that clients that should be filing challenges are, and clients that should not be filing challenges are not. Companies considering the A-CAM that find that they share a census block with a neighboring ILEC definitely should contact JSI about participating in joint comments before Thursday (more information on this situation is below).
The current A-CAM challenge process and the forthcoming Legacy USF challenge process are entirely different, with drastically different criteria and procedures. The A-CAM challenge process is underway, while the Legacy USF challenge will occur sometime later. Further, under the A-CAM challenge, the burden of proof falls on the RLEC, whereas under the Legacy USF challenge, the burden of proof will fall on the competitor. Accordingly, we recommend that clients that are not considering A-CAM support wait until the Legacy USF challenge commences, since your company will have a better likelihood of success.
A-CAM Challenge
If you are considering the A-CAM and have evidence that a competing carrier is not providing broadband at 10/1 Mbps in certain census blocks, then your company should file a challenge before Thursday’s deadline. Examples of such evidence include:
Keep in mind that because Form 477 data is being used, the challenge must show that the competitor is not able to serve even a single customer in a census block within a reasonable period of time. An affidavit from the competitor and assurance that the competitor will revise its 477 would be the most compelling evidence; anything else runs a risk of being denied by the FCC.
Shared Census Blocks
We are also seeing that, in some cases, neighboring rate-of-return carriers are “knocking out” census blocks from A-CAM support. The census blocks are partially in one company’s study area and partially in the neighboring rate-of-return carrier’s study area. According to the FCC, it will not consider “partial block” challenges, and the census block is the most granular level it can code in the model. This situation is cause for concern, primarily because neighboring ILECs are not unsubsidized competitors. This situation ignores the study area boundary and discounts the needs of consumers who may have no ability to get broadband on one side of a census block, even though a neighboring ILEC, in a different study area, may provide broadband on the other side of the census block.
JSI plans to file comments on this matter next week. Any client that would like its name included in the comments must contact JSI no later than Wednesday, April 27.
Also, if you would like assistance in mapping overlapping coverage or in preparing and filing a challenge, or if you have any questions about the challenge process, please contact Cassandra Heyne or John Kuykendall in the Maryland office at 301-459-7590 as soon as possible.
Source: JSI e-Lert
