On May 27, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Foreign Adversary NPRM or NPRM) that seeks to promote U.S. national security by providing “a new and...more
5/29/2025
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Russia ,
Telecommunications ,
VoIP
On April 29, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to codify a number of definitions and concepts underlying the foreign ownership rules and process in...more
On April 7, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to codify a number of definitions and concepts underlying the foreign ownership rules and process in...more
On March 12, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Public Notice titled “In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete,” which seeks public comment on “identifying FCC rules for the purpose of alleviating unnecessary...more
3/13/2025
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Trump Administration
Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) announced September 11, 2024 as the effective date of two rules initially adopted in the agency’s Team Telecom Process Reform Report and Order....more
On Friday, August 23, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) issued a Public Notice announcing that its rules regarding standardized national security and law enforcement questions (Standard Questions) for...more
On August 15, 2024, portions of the Federal Communications Commission’s recent amendments to its broadcast sponsorship identification requirements for leased programming provided by foreign governmental entities (FSID Rules)...more
On July 3, 2024, the Federal Register published a summary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Order on Reconsideration (Order) that reinstated section 73.3556 of the Commission’s rules (the radio...more
On June 27, 2024, the Federal Register published a summary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on proposed revisions to Commission rules related to...more
On June 10, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Second Report and Order (Second R&O) that amends the Commission’s foreign sponsorship identification rules (FSID Rules). As explained in...more
6/13/2024
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
FCC ,
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) ,
Foreign Entities ,
Foreign Governments ,
International Trade ,
Leases ,
Licensees ,
Political Advertising ,
PSA ,
Sponsors
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released the Report and Order (Order) in the 2018 Quadrennial Review, one day before the December 27 deadline mandated by the United States Court of Appeals for the...more
On December 8, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released its anticipated information collection to update the Commission’s records regarding the foreign ownership of international Section 214...more
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Office of International Affairs (OIA) recently released an Order in the agency’s ongoing proceeding related to its adoption of an Order and Notice of Proposed...more
The FCC is proposing comprehensive and sweeping changes to its twenty-year-old rules governing its international section 214 authorization framework. Because the FCC’s proposals would affect any company offering international...more
5/1/2023
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Foreign Ownership ,
Private Equity Firms ,
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Reporting Requirements ,
Telecommunications ,
Webinars ,
Wireless Industry ,
Wireless Internet Service Providers
On April 25, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released an Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on international Section 214 authorizations (the Order and NPRM), which authorize the provision...more
4/28/2023
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Cross-Border ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Storage ,
FCC ,
Foreign Adversaries ,
Foreign Ownership ,
National Security ,
NPRM ,
Ownership Interest ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Satellites ,
Telecommunications ,
Wireless Industry
On March 30, 2023, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC or Commission) released a draft Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on international section 214 authorizations (the Draft Order and Draft NPRM), which governs...more
Comments are due May 15, 2023 on a Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Notice and Request for Comments (Notice) regarding its October 2021 Second Report and Order that adopts a set of standardized national...more
The deadline for submitting comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) 2022 Quadrennial Review of the Commission’s media ownership rules is March 3, 2023. Reply comments are due on March 20, 2023....more
On December 22, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Media Bureau (Bureau) released a Public Notice (PN) commencing its 2022 Quadrennial Review of the Commission’s media ownership rules. Comments...more
On November 18, 2022, a summary of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Second NPRM) proposing to amend its rules for the identification of foreign government-sponsored...more
On October 6, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Second NPRM) in which the Commission proposed to amend its rules for the identification of foreign...more
On September 6, 2022, the D.C. Circuit issued its mandate in NAB v. FCC, causing the vacatur of the requirement that broadcasters independently verify whether parties leasing time on their stations are “foreign governmental...more
On July 12, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an opinion that vacated the requirement that broadcasters independently verify whether parties leasing time on their stations...more
On March 15, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s broadcast sponsorship identification requirements for leased programming provided by foreign governmental entities, adopted almost a year ago, will go into...more
On September 30, 2021, at its Open Commission Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) issued a Second Report and Order (Order) adopting a set of standardized national security and law enforcement...more
10/4/2021
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Cable Television Providers ,
CFIUS ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
FCC ,
Foreign Investment ,
National Security ,
Ownership Interest ,
Questionnaires ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Telecommunications