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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. \n\nRural 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.\n\nWTA 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.\n\nFCC Reauthorization Legislation, S. 2644 would reauthorize the FCC. \n\nS. 3408, Broadband Connections for Rural Opportunities Program (B-Crop)\n\nLobbied on E-Rate program reforms", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 43752, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "DERRICK", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "OWENS", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 37355, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "ERIC", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "KEBER", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 60966, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "PATRICIA", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "CAVE", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 53, "name": "Federal Communications Commission (FCC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "HOM", "general_issue_code_display": "Homeland Security", "description": "Cybersecurity Issues: WTA lobbied on a number of cybersecurity bills:\nH.R. 1560, Protecting Cyber Networks Act of 2015; \nH.R. 1731, National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015;\nH.R. 1770, Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2015; \nH.R. 2205, Data Security Act of 2015, S. 961, Data Security Act of 2015, \nS. 754, Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015)", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 43752, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "DERRICK", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "OWENS", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 60966, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "PATRICIA", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "CAVE", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 37355, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "ERIC", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "KEBER", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 53, "name": "Federal Communications Commission (FCC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "IND", "general_issue_code_display": "Indian/Native American Affairs", "description": "WTA lobbied policymakers in support the National Tribal Telecommunications Association's (NTTA) tribal broadband factor, which seeks to provide additional USF support to Tribally-owned telecommunications companies and other telecommunications companies providing telecommunications and broadband Internet access service on Tribal lands. 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