lobbying_activities: 1912838

Individual lobbying activities reported in quarterly filings. Each row is one issue area for one client — includes the specific issues lobbied on, government entities contacted, and income/expense amounts. Sortable columns (indexed): client_name, issue_code, filing_year, filing_uuid. Sorting on any other column returns HTTP 400 (2026-09-04, #697) — use ?sql= with your own ORDER BY if you need it.

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id	filing_uuid	filing_type	registrant_name	registrant_id	client_name	filing_year	filing_period	issue_code	specific_issues	government_entities	is_no_activity	is_termination	received_date
1912838	f2f05b82-bf42-4a22-9998-3224cbf3cf8c	Q4	WTA -- ADVOCATES FOR RURAL BROADBAND	293836	WTA -- ADVOCATES FOR RURAL BROADBAND	2016	fourth_quarter	TEC	Universal Service Reform: WTA lobbied on the FCC's March 2016 USF Reform Order, specifically aspects of the ACAM model and the modified Rate-of-Return path. WTA lobbied policymakers in support of the Alaska USF Plan and the National Tribal Telecommunications Association's (NTTA) tribal broadband factor. WTA staff lobbied on USF contributions reform. The association also lobbied on Lifeline program issues: H.R. 4884, the CURB Lifeline Act, H.R. 5525, the End Taxpayer Funded Cell Phones Act. Also lobbied on provision in FCC's Lifeline Reform Order that requires telcos to provide standalone broadband service to Lifeline customers if they ask for such service. Rural Call Completion: WTA lobbied in support of S. 827 and H.R. 2566, Improving Rural Call Quality & Reliability Act of 2015. The legislation addresses the issue of calls not being completed to rural areas and calls on the FCC to set standards for Least Cost Routers. WTA also supported S. 2283/H.R. 4596, The Small Business Broadband Deployment Act of 2015, which exempts for 5 years any small business broadband Internet provider with no more than 250,000 subscribers from the Open Internet Order's enhanced transparency measures. FCC Reauthorization Legislation, S. 2644 would reauthorize the FCC. S. 3408, Broadband Connections for Rural Opportunities Program (B-Crop) Lobbied on E-Rate program reforms	Federal Communications Commission (FCC),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,SENATE	0	0	2017-01-13T14:52:03-05:00