FCC, Mobile Broadband Services

FCC Forges Ahead With Rural 5G Broadband Fund

Perkins Coie on 9/13/2024

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently adopted an order (5G Fund Order) that will enable it to distribute up to $9 billion to 5G mobile voice and data service providers through the 5G Fund for Rural America (5G...more

FCC's New 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Map: Are You Covered?

Mintz on 8/10/2021

On August 6, 2021, the FCC released a brand new, first-of-its-kind, mobile broadband map, showing mobile 4G LTE voice and broadband coverage across the U.S. from the Nation's largest wireless providers. The map, available...more

FCC Plans to Realign 900 MHz Land Mobile Band to Include Commercial Broadband Mobile Licenses and Expand Frequencies Available to...

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 5/13/2020

At its May Open Meeting on May 13, 2020, in addition to items on regulatory fees and broadcaster applications notices, the Commission will consider two spectrum related items designed to further expand wireless broadband...more

FCC to Propose National Crisis Hotline, Tackle Mid-Band Spectrum Items at December Meeting

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 12/3/2019

The FCC plans to follow last month’s major 911 location accuracy item with another significant public safety rulemaking at its next meeting scheduled for December 12, 2019. Under the FCC’s plan, all telecommunications...more

FCC Releases First Comprehensive Market Report But With Notable Exclusions

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 1/3/2019

At its December 12 Open Meeting, the FCC adopted its first Communications Marketplace Report (“CMR”), which combines several separate reports into one and is meant to provide a comprehensive overview of the mobile wireless,...more

FCC Plans to Ease Access to Rights-of-Way for Wireless Deployments

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 9/14/2018

The FCC plans to take major action to speed the deployment of small wireless broadband facilities to support 5G technologies at its next meeting, scheduled for September 26, 2018. The FCC’s draft Declaratory Ruling and Order...more

FCC Sets Stage for $4.5 Billion Auction by Resolving Mobility Fund Phase II Challenges

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 2/28/2018

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) took a major step forward on closing the “digital divide” in mobile broadband at its February meeting by unanimously adopting an Order resolving the remaining challenges to the...more

August 2017 FCC Meeting Recap: FCC Proposes Changes to Broadband Data Collection

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 8/18/2017

At its August Open Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) voted unanimously in favor of a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”) that explores ways to improve the value of data,...more

Desire for More Granular Deployment and Subscription Data Drives FCC to Propose Changes to Providers’ Form 477 Reporting...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 8/17/2017

Explaining that you “can’t manage what you can’t measure,” Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) Chairman Pai’s recent proposal to revise the Commission’s Form 477 broadband and voice data collection requirements...more

August 2017 FCC Meeting Recap: FCC Adopts Challenge Process for Billions in Mobility Fund Phase II Support

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 8/8/2017

At its August 2017 Open Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) unanimously adopted an Order on Reconsideration and Second Report and Order (“Order”) outlining a process to challenge the FCC’s determinations of...more

June 2017 FCC Meeting Recap: FCC Grants OneWeb’s U.S. Market-Access Petition for its Ka/Ku-Band NGSO System Subject to Conditions

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 6/30/2017

On June 22, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) conditionally granted OneWeb’s proposed 720 Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit (“NGSO”) constellation access to the U.S. market in select...more

Copper Retirement in Rural Communities

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 6/29/2017

The original backbone of this nation’s telephone – twisted copper wire pairs – is being retired. This process will significantly impact communities throughout the country, particularly rural governments, consumers and small...more

Increased Lifeline Minimum Service Standards and Budget Cap for 2018 Announced

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/28/2017

In 2016, the FCC adopted its Lifeline Modernization Order, in which it introduced Lifeline subsidies for the provision of broadband services, and imposed graduated minimum service standards for Lifeline-supported broadband...more

FCC Adopts Framework for $4.53B Mobility Fund Phase II

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/16/2017

After some months of delay, the FCC has launched the second phase in its plans to provide significant subsidies over the next decade to fund the expansion of mobile wireless services to unserved rural areas of the country. ...more

Commission Adopts Long-Awaited Mobility Fund Phase II

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 3/2/2017

On February 23, 2017, during the second open meeting under Chairman Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) unanimously approved an order launching the long-awaited second phase of the Mobility...more

FCC Begins Roll Back of Net Neutrality

Perkins Coie on 2/7/2017

Roughly two weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, has taken steps providing further evidence that he plans to roll back FCC actions taken under...more

Who Will Grant Licenses for Lifeline Broadband? FCC Takes a Pause in Pending Appeal to Consider New Administration’s Approach

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/7/2017

Last Friday, the FCC filed a motion with the DC Circuit to put a hold on the pending appeal of a portion of its 2016 Lifeline order finding that the FCC—and not the states—had sole jurisdiction to grant Lifeline broadband...more

FCC Cancels Recently Granted Lifeline Broadband Provider Licenses as Part of Larger Sweep of Wheeler-Era Decisions

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/7/2017

The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau recently granted nine Lifeline Broadband Provider (“LBP”) designations: four on December 1, 2016 and five more on January 18, 2017, as part of its effort launched last year by...more

FCC Wireless Bureau’s Staff Report Questions AT&T and Verizon Zero Rating Practices in Mobile Broadband Market…But To What Effect...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/20/2017

On January 11, 2017, the FCC released its most extensive “policy review” of mobile broadband operators sponsored data offerings for zero-rated content and services since the Commission’s 2015 Open Internet Order. ...more

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