It was excellent to see existing and prospective customers and visit the different NAMS reports that help them with various FCC requirements.
NTCA – RTIME
San Diego, CA - Another successful expo. Shirley Bloomfield and her team do a great job representing the small rule telephone companies with all the politicians on the Hill. I was honored to serve on the Associate Member Task Force for three years. It was an honor.
NECA Expo
CMSI was excited to be at the NECA Expo in Nashville, TN. It was a great turnout and great times visiting with customers that have been with us for 25 years and meeting new employees that have been added to some of our company's teams. We had such a great...
TTA Summer Meeting – San Antonio
CMSI had another very successful show at the TTA summer convention. This show is like coming to a family reunion. Everyone is like family. We are so blessed to have many of the leaders within TTA as customers and, most significantly, friends. This year the TTA Board opted to create...
MNTA
CMSI had another excellent trade show at the MNTA (Minnesota Telephone Association) 2022 regional conference, where we were able to continue to build key relations with MTA members that have NAMS Firefly systems and those that are looking at it for a viable solution to assist them in managing their...
Range selects MVP from NAMS
For Immediate Release Range selects MVP from NAMS (Abilene, TX – July 1, 2021) Carrier Management System Inc dba NAMS has been selected by Range to provide the NAMS Metaswitch Visibility Package (MVP) for managing their Metaswitch softswitches. The MVP will be used to manage their switches as they continue...
Rural Electric Cooperatives – pushing Broadband
One of the most conservative industries in our country, devoted to their membership more than most can comprehend, the overriding wave to have "better" broadband is making this industry re-invent itself. Some states holding complicated laws in place on how a REC can conduct itself in the "broadband" space; others...
FCC Chairperson, with the changing of the Guard!?
FCC Chair? With the new President elected, who will step up and be President-Elect Biden's selection? Who are the top candidates at this time? As we write this, Jessica Rosenworcel (Senior Democratic member) and Geoffrey Starks (Democratic Commissioner) are the top two candidates. Rosenworcel has had a good relationship with...
Recent RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) winners
1. Of the proposed $16B in awards available, FCC ended up awarding around $9.2B for Phase 1, the rest for Phase 2 needs. Out of 386 candidates, only 180 were selected winners. ILECS/RECs/Wireless Providers/Tier 1 & 2s won approximately 85% of the RDOF reverse auction funds; some of the other...
Trump Signs Robocall Bill
President Trump signed the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act into law on December 30, 2019. The bill requires carriers to offer call-authentication technology to everyone at no additional charge and gives the FCC the ability to step up enforcement actions against unlawful robocalls with a longer statute...