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NIST Holds First Workshop on Executive Order Cybersecurity Framework

On April 3, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a workshop at the Department of Commerce in which it offered a sneak preview of the Cybersecurity Framework required under the recently-issued...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update: NIST Issues Request for Information on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Practices

On February 26, following close on the heels of the recent executive order setting forth the administration’s approach to the regulation of critical infrastructure network security, the National Institute of Standards and...more

Executive Order Begins Process Of Strengthening Nation’s Cybersecurity And Critical Infrastructure

During his State of the Union address on February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama announced his signing of a long-anticipated Executive Order on cybersecurity. After months of discussions with technology companies the...more

CBb 6 juni 2012, Mediaforum 2012/11-12, Nr. 28 (Minister van EL&I en NDC/RATO c.s.) m.nt. H.P. Wiersema en J.J.R. Lautenbach

Deze uitspraak gaat over de verdeling van vergunningen voor het gebruik van frequentieruimte voor niet-landelijke commerciële radio-omroepen en de middengolf. Op 3 maart 2008 heeft de Minister van EL&I twaalf FM-frequenties...more

Do We Need a Single Set of Rules Nationwide for Smart Grid Technology?

“Smart Grid” refers to the emerging effort to combine the two-way flow of electricity with the two-way flow of information to make electricity generation, delivery, and use more efficient and reliable nationwide. The Federal...more

Preserving the Open Internet / Broadband Industry Practices

FCC's Report & Order on Net Neutrality

On Dec. 23, 2010, the FCC released this controversial order on broadband industry policies. Whether the FCC has jurisdiction and power to govern this subject matter, and whether this achieves the objective of net neutrality,...more

The CRTC's Matching Speed Decision: What's Good for the Gander May be Toxic for the Goose

UPDATED BELOW In a Decision released on August 30th, the CRTC has confirmed that Canada's major telephone companies must make their existing wholesale high-speed internet access services available to competitors under a...more

Communications Law Bulletin - August/September 2009

IN THIS ISSUE: *The Month in Brief *Chairman Genachowski Proposes to Expand and Codify Internet Openness Policy Principles *FCC Tackles Consumer Issues ..FCC Issues NOI on Availability of Consumer Information ..Media...more

Communications and IT Advisory: Ninth Circuit Decision a Victory for Landline and Wireless Telecommunications Providers

Communications and IT Advisory: Ninth Circuit Decision a Victory for Landline and Wireless Telecommunications Providers

On June 13, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision that will have important ramifications on the ability of both wireless telecommunications providers and telecommunications providers...more

Communications Antitrust Advisory: SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI Merger Review Ends - Not with Bang, but with Whimper

Communications Antitrust Advisory: SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI Merger Review Ends - Not with Bang, but with Whimper

On January 30, 2005, SBC agreed to acquire AT&T. Two weeks later, on February 14, 2005, Verizon agreed to acquire MCI. After its investigation, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ" or "Antitrust Division")...more

Communications Presentation: Challenges of the 21st Century: Are Regulators Seeking to Promote or Hamper the Deployment and Delivery of Sophisticated, Multi-Functional Cable-Provided VoIP Services?

Communications Presentation: Challenges of the 21st Century: Are Regulators Seeking to Promote or Hamper the Deployment and...

Authored by Chérie Kiser for presentation at the Practising Law Institute's Cable Television Law 2007: Competition in Video, Internet & Telephony, San Francisco, March 6, 2007. Issues for cable-provided wireline and...more

Communications and IT Presentation: Evolving Federal Communications Policies

Communications and IT Presentation: Evolving Federal Communications Policies

This presentation, Evolving Federal Communications Policies -Recent FCC Decisions and Policy Initiatives Affecting Local Government and What to Expect from the FCC in the Coming Year Regarding Broadband Services Provided by...more

Communications and IT Paper: Evolving Federal Communications Policies

Communications and IT Paper: Evolving Federal Communications Policies

This Paper, written by Chérie R. Kiser for Law Seminars International, Local Broadband Regulation & Deployment, February 22-23, 2007, examines how recent rulings and policies adopted by the Federal Communications Commission...more

Health and Communications and IT Advisory: Grants Available for Telehealth and Telemedicine from the FCC

Health and Communications and IT Advisory: Grants Available for Telehealth and Telemedicine from the FCC

The FCC has announced a two-year pilot program that would fund up to 85% of the costs for the design, construction and use of dedicated broadband networks in order to expand the availability and use of telehealth and...more