The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau on Friday extended for six months, through July 16, the conditional certifications for Rogervoice to provide IP captioned telephone service and for Tive to provide video relay service, supported by the telecommunications relay service fund. In 2024, the bureau granted Rogervoice conditional certification to provide service for a period of two years, which was set to end Tuesday, the order said.

USTelecom will warn the FCC in comments next week that while the benefits of IP interconnection are “clear and compelling,” moving to an all-IP world remains “a daunting task.” The existing regulatory framework for time-division multiplexing (TDM) interconnection “itself poses a significant barrier to IP interconnection and, more broadly, to the transition to an all-IP network,” said an early summary of the comments made available Friday.

Representatives of the Industry Traceback Group (ITG) provided preliminary observations on its work in 2025 in an FCC filing posted Thursday in docket 17-59. Since 2020, tracebacks “increasingly end with providers identified as U.S.-based,” rather than foreign-based, the ITG said. More than 30 new providers are identified in tracebacks on average each month, and last year, 110 U.S. and 82 non-U.S. providers failed to respond to traceback requests, it said. “Patterns of repeated and overlapping relationships may indicate intentional strategic obfuscation rather than isolated incidents.”

The FCC sought comment Thursday on a proposal to transfer telecom assets from Hayneville Telephone and Hayneville Fiber to Synergy. Hayneville Telephone is an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) providing traditional voice, long-distance and broadband services to rural customers in central Alabama, the Wireline Bureau said. Synergy, a subsidiary of Western Kentucky Rural Telephone Co-op, is based in Tennessee and is the parent of Ardmore Telephone Co., an ILEC serving customers in Alabama and Tennessee. Comments are due Jan. 29, replies Feb. 5, in docket 25-312.

Comments are due Jan. 27, replies Feb. 3, in docket 25-301 on the sale of Epic Touch and Elkhart Telephone Co. to IdeaTek, said an FCC Wireline Bureau notice in Wednesday’s Daily Digest. Epic Touch and Elkhart Telephone -- both based in Kansas -- are currently owned by a collection of family trusts. IdeaTek provides broadband and telecom services in Kansas and Missouri.

Comments are due Jan. 28 in docket 26-8 on CenturyLink’s application to discontinue legacy voice service in portions of Kenansville, Florida, after March 31, according to a public notice from the FCC Wireline Bureau in Wednesday’s Daily Digest. The application will be automatically granted Feb. 13 unless the FCC notifies CenturyLink that it won’t be, the notice said.

The FCC Wireline Bureau sought comment Tuesday on a proposal to transfer control of Codecom from the Luis G. Romero Trust to Jose Romero. Codecom provides telecom services primarily to businesses in Puerto Rico, the bureau said. Comments are due Jan. 27, replies Feb. 3, in docket 25-345. In a filing last month, Codecom said it’s seeking a “simple transfer of control between two brothers that make up the entirety of the membership of a privately held company.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has rejected CenturyTel’s appeal of a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that the company broke the law by failing to provide information to a labor union about nonunion workers operating in the union’s jurisdiction, according to an order Tuesday (docket 24-1346).

As of the end of 2025, Brightspeed seems to have met its three-year buildout milestone of 40% for the Rural Development Opportunity Fund (RDOF) in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, it said Monday (docket 10-90). Brightspeed said its RDOF obligations include enabling gigabit broadband to more than 30,000 locations, and it's meeting that obligation through its fiber buildout.

The FCC's proceeding on streamlining wireline deployment permitting shows the fundamental policy schism between the desire to speed up broadband buildouts nationwide and the desire to preserve local governance over rights-of-way and community planning, Ice Miller's Meagan Sunn wrote last week. While the Communications Act gives the FCC authority to preempt state or local rules that prohibit provision of telecommunications services, the agency's attempt to define certain permitting parties as inherently prohibitive could lead to legal challenges over the scope of that authority and its interaction with long-standing local land-use and rights-of-way management powers, said Sunn, the law firm's senior director of government affairs.