On July 29, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") issued a Report and Order ("Order") extending E-Rate support to off-premises Wi-Fi hotspots for use by students, school staff, and library patrons. Hotspots had...more
8/7/2024
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At its March 14, 2024, open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules that require multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs – cable television operators and satellite video providers) to...more
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau announced Monday that the last fully funded month for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) will be April 2024 absent additional funding from...more
In 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) under a finite $14.2 billion Congressional appropriation that is now forecast to be exhausted by April 2024. The FCC has...more
Update: OMB approved the FCC's broadband disclosure rules on October 10, 2023, meaning that most of the rules will become applicable to ISPs with more than 100,000 subscriber lines on April 10, 2024, and to all other ISPs on...more
10/13/2023
The Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC") recent release of the national Broadband Map, which purports to identify all locations in the U.S. where fixed and mobile broadband internet service is available as of June 30,...more
At the Congressional deadline imposed by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has required fixed and mobile internet service providers (ISPs) to publish broadband...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comment on new proposed robocall mitigation and enforcement rules that would include...more
Update September 24, 2021: The FCC has extended the deadline for regulatory fee payments to September 27 at 11:59 P.M. Eastern time. The FCC Regulatory Fees applicable to most regulated entities must be paid by 11:59 pm...more
On Thursday, October 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its Order on Remand (adopted at its October 27 meeting), responding to the D.C. Circuit's remand of certain aspects of the agency's earlier...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) extended its June 2021 deadline for certain small, non-IP, and other voice service providers to implement STIR/SHAKEN call authentication to reduce illegal and unwanted robocalls...more
On October 1, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to change its rules governing the required notices that cable operators must give to customers and local or state franchise authorities when changing...more
On December 20, 2019, the Television Viewer Protection Act of 2019 (new Section 642 of the Communications Act) became law as part of the "must-pass" 2020 appropriations act. ...more
On October 1, 2019, a divided panel of the D.C. Circuit issued a lengthy per curiam decision that largely upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom order, issued by the agency in early...more
As we previously advised, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reinstated its customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”) rules governing the privacy obligations of telecommunications and VoIP service providers...more
Today, the FCC adopted an order relieving broadband providers with 250,000 or fewer connections from the enhanced transparency requirements introduced in the 2015 Open Internet Order. Compared to the prior Administration’s...more
This is to remind our clients that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rules require every telecommunications and interconnected VoIP service provider (including wireless, cable telephony, and even paging and...more
On Wednesday, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau extended the ongoing exemption from applying the enhanced transparency requirements of the 2015 Open Internet Order to small providers. As a result, small...more
The FCC’s Battery Back-up Order takes effect on Feb. 16, 2016. The Order requires all facilities-based VoIP providers with more than 100,000 U.S. customer lines to provide customers the option to purchase battery backup power...more
Smaller broadband providers now have an opportunity to convince the FCC to maintain the small provider exemption from the new “enhanced” transparency (disclosure) requirements of the 2015 Open Internet Order. As we explained...more
The FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability (“NAL”) to AT&T for alleged violations of the 2010 Open Internet “transparency rule.” The FCC contends that AT&T “willfully and repeatedly” violated the rule by: (1) using the...more
Come June 12, unless stayed by a federal court, broadband Internet service providers will be subject to expanded requirements to protect consumer privacy and new limitations on the use of customer data under the FCC’s recent...more
This is to remind our clients that, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 222(c), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires every telecommunications and interconnected VoIP service provider (including wireless, cable telephony,...more
On February 4, 2015, the FCC issued a press release describing the Open Internet (or Net Neutrality) rules Chairman Wheeler will bring to a vote at the Commission’s February 26, 2015 meeting. The draft order is now being...more
2/6/2015
December 15 is now set as the deadline by which nearly all cable operators, telecommunications carriers, and many others must respond to an extensive FCC special access data collection, per an Order on Reconsideration...more