FCC, Broadband, 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

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

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

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

First Group of Lifeline Broadband Providers Designated by the FCC

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 12/6/2016

On December 1, 2016, the FCC somewhat unexpectedly issued an order approving four Lifeline Broadband Provider (“LBP”) applications, which will permit the companies to receive Lifeline support for the provision of broadband...more

Broadband Providers Face New Regulations for Protection of Consumer Data

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/3/2016

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released landmark protections for internet users, requiring permission from broadband subscribers before broadband providers can collect data on the subscribers’ web...more

FCC Steps Up Enforcement of Broadband Transparency Rules

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/27/2016

Continuing its efforts to enforce the Open Internet transparency rules, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau on Wednesday, Oct. 19, announced a settlement and consent decree with a mobile broadband ISP (T-Mobile) under which the...more

Six Key Consequences of the D.C. Circuit Upholding Net Neutrality

Perkins Coie on 6/21/2016

On its third try, the Federal Communications Commission finally got the sweeping net neutrality court victory it had been seeking for years. In US Telecom v. FCC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...more

FCC Privacy Regulations: The Next Litigation Trend?

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/21/2016

Last month the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) closed the comment period for its proposed privacy regulations, which we previously wrote about here. The million dollar question on everyone’s minds is whether the...more

DC Circuit Affirms FCC’s Open Internet Order

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/15/2016

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected multiple Petitions for Review and upheld the FCC’s Open Internet Order. That order reclassified wired and mobile broadband Internet access services as...more

California Telecom Providers File Suit to Protect Competitively Sensitive Information

Nossaman LLP on 5/19/2016

On May 5, AT&T Mobility along with several other telecommunications providers and trade associations filed a complaint in the Northern District of California against the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”)...more

The Lifeline Modernization Order

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 5/6/2016

Last week, the FCC finally released the full, 224-page text of its controversial and anxiously awaited Lifeline Modernization Order, which was approved by a bitterly divided, party-line 3-2 vote on March 31. As we advised in...more

Lifeline Modernization and Transition from Voice to Broadband

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 5/2/2016

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released the Lifeline Modernization Order on April 27, 2016, to modernize the Lifeline program to support broadband Internet access, which “has become a prerequisite...more

FCC Sets Clearing Target and Starting Date for Incentive Auction

Pillsbury - CommLawCenter on 5/2/2016

In a long-anticipated move towards commencement of the spectrum auction, the FCC today released a Public Notice and related Appendix providing an initial clearing target of 126 Megahertz of spectrum in what is currently the...more

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