FCC, Automotive Industry

Accelerating Privacy Scrutiny: Key Developments for the Auto Industry

Venable LLP on 6/4/2024

Recent U.S. developments indicate a growing focus on regulating and investigating the data privacy practices of companies in the automotive sector. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently highlighted in a blog post its...more

Foley Automotive Update - March 2024

Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/6/2024

This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments - U.S. new light-vehicle sales are projected to reach a SAAR of 15.4...more

Foley Automotive Update - January 2024 - 2

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/25/2024

This update helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments - China may have surpassed Japan to become the world’s largest...more

NHTSA Withdraws Proposed Rule on Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications

Miller Canfield on 12/1/2023

On November 20, 2023, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”) announced that it was withdrawing a previous proposal to create a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (“FMVSS”) requiring...more

FCC Reaches New Heights With $300M Robocall Fine

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/8/2023

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its largest fine to date, totaling $299,997,000, in an action against an auto warranty scam robocall operation run by an international network....more

5.9 GHz Waiver Opens Road to Initial C-V2X Deployment

Venable LLP on 5/2/2023

On April 24, the FCC granted a joint waiver request to allow initial deployment of next-generation cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) technology. C-V2X technology allows vehicles to communicate with one another and with...more

FCC proposes $300 million fine against auto warranty scam robocaller

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/6/2023

On December 21, the FCC announced a nearly $300 million fine against an auto warranty scam robocall campaign for TCPA and Truth in Caller ID Act violations, “which is the largest robocall operation the FCC has ever...more

Foley Automotive Report - August 2022 - 4

Foley & Lardner LLP on 8/24/2022

This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Foley & Lardner will host a half-day Automotive Forum on Wednesday, September 14, at the...more

FCC reallocates transportation safety spectrum for Wi-Fi use, endorses C-V2X for auto safety

Hogan Lovells on 11/20/2020

For twenty years, the 5.9 GHz band (5.850-5.925 GHz) has been dedicated to intelligent transportation systems and vehicle safety, and in particular a technology called Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC)....more

Wireless Charging for Electric Vehicles

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints on 4/6/2020

Demand for electric vehicles (EVs) has been growing as more and more models and are coming to market, some from new automakers. One barrier to widespread adoption of EVs is the amount of charging time that is required,...more

Alert: FCC Proposes to Repurpose Spectrum for Auto Safety and Unlicensed Uses

Cooley LLP on 12/18/2019

The FCC has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in which it proposes to repurpose 75 MHz of spectrum from 5.850 to 5.925 GHz (known as the 5.9 GHz band) currently allocated for automobile safety. In 1999, the FCC...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.03.2019 | Top Story: US Threatens Tariffs on French Goods Over New Digital Services Tax

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/3/2019

Because who wants a nice quiet December, right? Yesterday, the U.S. opened yet another trade war front by proposing retaliatory tariffs of up to 100% on a wide range of French imports after announcing that “it found France’s...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.17.2019 | Top Story: GM and UAW Reach Tentative Deal to End Month-long Strike

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/17/2019

Good news out of Detroit late yesterday, with officials from General Motors and the United Autoworkers Union striking a “tentative agreement on a new labor contract that could end the monthlong strike that has idled G.M....more

Emerging Technologies Washington Update June 2019 #1

McGuireWoods Consulting on 6/7/2019

This Week: House Judiciary Committee to probe competition in digital markets, House and Senate Committees examine the state of the media marketplace, DOT convenes conference on vehicle-to-everything communications, FTC to...more

Emerging Technologies Washington Update May 2019 #5

McGuireWoods Consulting on 5/31/2019

This Week: FMCSA and NHTSA seek comments on automated driving systems, FTC publishes agenda for online ticket sales workshop, FCC releases 2019 Report on Broadband Deployment, new OSTP reports to inform national spectrum...more

FCC Seeks Comment on GM Request for Waiver of RTT Requirements for Autonomous Vehicle Chat Feature

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 1/4/2019

The FCC issued a Public Notice on December 26, 2018 seeking input on a petition from General Motors Holding LLC (“GM”) that requests partial waiver of the interoperability functionalities for accessible real-time text (“RTT”)...more

Fast and furious? Connected cars, jamming, and the battle for spectrum

Hogan Lovells on 9/14/2017

Times are changing in the automotive industry, and changing fast. In this hoganlovells.com interview, Washington, D.C.-based Hogan Lovells partner Ari Fitzgerald talks about the challenges facing car manufacturers as they...more

US FCC Allocates 5 GHz of Contiguous Spectrum for Next Generation Vehicular Radar

Hogan Lovells on 7/20/2017

On July 13, the United States (“US”) Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) issued a decision allocating a contiguous 5 GHz band of radio frequency spectrum for vehicular radar operations. The decision implemented in the...more

Advertising Law - March 2017 #4

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/30/2017

Ad Groups Push for FCC Privacy Rule Reversal - The drama surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's privacy rules continues. Part of an Order passed last year along party lines under former Chairman Tom...more

Advertising Law - February 2017 #3

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 2/17/2017

NAD Inquiry Results in Modified Celebrity Endorsements - As a result of an inquiry by the National Advertising Division, celebrity endorsements of FitTea were revised to better disclose material connections. The...more

[Event] Who's in the Driver's Seat? What the Connected Car Shows Us About the Legal and Regulatory Issues of the Internet of...

BakerHostetler on 2/9/2017

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges – launching groundbreaking collaboration among disparate industries and generating insightful data from uncommon sources....more

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