Member Profile: Access Marketing Company |
Access Marketing Company (AMC), founded in 2006, is a vertically integrated marketing consultancy and agency focused on building enterprise brands, creating compelling marketing messages and tying business objectives to marketing programs. It was born from the need that Founding Partner Joy Milkowski saw in her consulting business for resources clients didn’t have to execute the programs she was designing. With growth and change over the past 17 years, AMC has continued to have a client focus that is mostly tech. Target customers are mainly mid-size to enterprise telecom, cloud, infrastructure and data center companies. AMC has represented over 100 national and regional network providers, as well as interesting non-tech clients, like a private airline, a packaging company, an LGBTQ travel company and a gluten-free bakery.
Visit the INCOMPAS website to learn more about Access Marketing Company.
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NTIA to Hold July 19 Webinar on the BEAD Challenge Process |
Join NTIA for a webinar on Wednesday, July 19, at 3 p.m. EDT that provides an overview and outlines the role that a unit of local government, nonprofit organization or broadband service provider may participate in the challenge process.
This webinar will provide an introduction this BEAD state challenge process, including:
- The BEAD Initial Proposal’s description, volume approach, and timeline
- The BEAD Initial Proposal Volume I NOFO requirements
- Challenge submission steps and the roles of NTIA, Eligible Entities, and Challengers
- Next steps and additional resources
Register here for the July 19 webinar.
More information on NTIA’s BEAD Challenge Process Policy Notice, Model Challenge Process, and other BEAD Initial Proposal resources can be found here.
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FCC Wireline Bureau Extends Waiver Pausing Phaseout of
Voice-Only Lifeline, Increase in Minimum Service Standards
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The FCC Wireline Competition Bureau issued an order on July 7 extending the waiver pausing the phaseout of Lifeline support for voice-only services and the increase in Lifeline minimum service standards for mobile broadband data capacity for an additional year, until December 1, 2024.
The bureau said without a pause, support for services that meet only the voice minimum service standard, currently at $5.25 per month, would be eliminated in most areas and the MSS for mobile broadband data capacity would rise from 4.5 GB to 20 GB per month on December 1, 2023. The bureau said the pause will allow it to understand the impact of the ACP on Lifeline subscribers’ use of their Lifeline benefit, consider the results of the ACP transparency data collection and consider the recommendations presented in the future of USF report.
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Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan Published |
The Biden Administration's recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy calls for two fundamental shifts in how the United States allocates roles, responsibilities and resources in cyberspace:
- Ensuring that the biggest, most capable, and best-positioned entities – in the public and private sectors – assume a greater share of the burden for mitigating cyber risk
- Increasing incentives to favor long-term investments into cybersecurity
The Administration announced last week a roadmap to realize this bold, affirmative vision. It is taking the novel step of publishing the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP) to ensure transparency and a continued path for coordination. This plan details more than 65 high-impact federal initiatives, from protecting American jobs by combatting cybercrimes to building a skilled cyber workforce equipped to excel in our increasingly digital economy.
The Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security are among the 18 federal agencies that will spearhead these initiatives under the Administration’s first cybersecurity implementation plan. The plan—which also covers CISA, the CIA, and the NSA—is the most detailed vision yet for improving the nation’s digital security.
The NCSIP, along with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, Inflation Reduction Act, and other major Administration initiatives, will protect our investments in rebuilding America’s infrastructure, developing our clean energy sector, and re-shoring America’s technology and manufacturing base.
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Senate Commerce Approves FCC Nominees |
Last Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved nominations for three FCC Commissioners, the FCC Inspector General, a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board and Coast Guard promotions.
Senate Commerce Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-WA) said she will ask Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for these nominations to be voted on by the full Senate before the August break, but this could be difficult because the nominees will need to be debated on the Senate floor and there is limited floor time available.
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Senators Fight for Broadband Strategy |
Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), John Thune (R-SD) and Peter Welch (D-VT) reintroduced the Proper Leadership to Align Networks (PLAN) for Broadband Act. The legislation requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to develop a national strategy to close the digital divide and a plan to implement it. This legislation is based on a Government Accountability Office report that found that federal broadband efforts are fragmented and overlapping and recommended that the executive branch develop a national broadband strategy.
Representatives Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Annie Kuster (D-NH) introduced companion legislation in the House.
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