In this issue:
*The Month in Brief
*Supreme Court Upholds FCC?s “Fleeting Expletives” Indecency Rule
*Progress on EU Regulatory Reforms
*Denial of Complaint Against MetroPCS Spells out CMRS Interconnection Rules
*FCC Seeks Comment on Broadband Programs Under the Recovery Act and Seeks Comment on Broadband Mapping
o National Broadband Plan Under the Recovery Act
o FCC’s Consultative Role on the Recovery Act Broadband Programs
o Comment Cycle for Broadband Data Improvement Act Implementation
o Digital Television Transition Funds
*Legislative Developments: Congress?s Universal Service Fund Investigation Returns; Proposed Legislation on Wireless Spam and In-Flight Calling
*White House Memorandum Addresses Communications with Lobbyists
*FCC Release NPRM to Promote Rural Radio Stations
*Recent Enforcement Activity Covers a Wide Range of Violations
o Intel Corp. Consent Decree
o Omniat International Telecom NAL
o Hawking Technologies, Inc. Forfeiture Order
o Hughes Communications, Inc. Consent Decree
o WordNet, L.L.C. NAL
o Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. NAL
*Tip Box
*Wireless Developments
o DC Circuit Rejects Challenge to Designated Entity Rules
o Four Largest U.S. Wireless Carriers Agree to Mobile Marketing “Best Practices”
o FCC Revises Its 4.9 GHz Rules to Assist Public Safety Users
*FCC Initiates High Cost USF Inquiry Following the 2005 “Qwest II” Remand
*Alabama and Tennessee Closer to Deregulating Basic Telephone Services
*Orbital Collision Prompts U.S. Military to Track More Spacecraft
*U.S. Eases Restrictions on Telecom Services to Cuba
*Free Press Urges Application of Internet Policy Statement to Wireless
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