FCC, Rulemaking Process, Comment Period

FCC Seeks Comment on ATSC 3.0/Next Gen TV Transition

Wiley Rein LLP on 4/21/2025

On April 7, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Public Notice seeking comment on the Petition for Rulemaking (the Petition) filed by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) asking...more

Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Regulatory Update — FCC Seeks Comment on Petitions Focused on Quiet Hour and Utility...

Mintz - Technology, Communications & Media... on 3/28/2025

Amid a surge in Telephone Consumer and Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuits, two groups filed Petitions for Declaratory Ruling before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this month, seeking clarity on several current TCPA...more

ALERT: Delete, Delete, Delete—FCC Calls for Comment on Which Rules Should be Eliminated

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/20/2025

On March 12th, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) issued a Public Notice (“Notice”) seeking comment on which FCC rules should be repealed or modified to alleviate “unnecessary regulatory burdens” and enhance...more

Wireless Roundup (March 2025)

Wiley Rein LLP on 3/3/2025

FCC Solicits Comment on Amending Accessibility Rules for IVCS: In this Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) requests further comment on whether to amend its...more

Impersonation Rulemaking: FTC Takes Steps to Tackle AI

Venable LLP on 3/1/2024

On February 15, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a two-step approach to tackling impersonation fraud. First, the FTC finalized a rule regulating the impersonation of businesses and government entities (the...more

FCC Initiates Rulemaking About Commercial Spectrum Usage for AI and Other Purposes

Perkins Coie on 8/15/2023

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking public comment on the feasibility, benefits, and limitations of techniques that can help advance the FCC’s understanding of “nonfederal” spectrum usage. The FCC has...more

ALERT: FCC Opens Rulemaking on Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Licensed Spectrum

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/5/2023

On January 4, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) setting forth proposed rules for the operation of unmanned aircraft systems in the 5030-5091 MHz band...more

FCC to explore new rules for in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing missions

Hogan Lovells on 9/30/2022

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently took the first steps toward new rules to govern the next frontier of space innovation by adopting a notice of inquiry on in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing...more

FCC Sets Comment Deadlines for Satellite Orbital Debris Mitigation Rules

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 9/1/2020

- The FCC’s Report and Order and FNPRM on satellite orbital debris mitigation, previously adopted on April 23, 2020, were published in the Federal Register on August 25. - This action now sets an October 9, 2020 deadline...more

FCC Adopts New Rules with Safe Harbors for Blocking Robocalls

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/17/2020

Continuing with its efforts against illegal robocalling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules to further encourage phone companies to block illegal and unwanted robocalls before they reach consumers. ...more

FCC Petition May Create Safe Harbor For TCPA Consent

Benesch on 6/19/2020

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) seeks comment on the Petition for Expedited Declaratory Ruling Regarding the Application of 47 U.S.C. § 227(b)(1) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“Petition”) filed by...more

FCC Signals It May Be Prepared to Greatly Expand Its Proposed Ban on Huawei and ZTE Equipment

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/14/2020

As previously reported, the FCC’s ban of Huawei and ZTE equipment and services from projects subsidized by the FCC’s Universal Service Fund (USF) became effective on January 3, 2020, following the publication of its December...more

FCC To Assess Tribal Engagement Process

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 10/31/2019

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comment on ways to improve the dialogue between tribes and carriers that provide subsidized telephone and broadband services to tribal areas using federal universal...more

Fall is for Falling Leaves, Thanksgiving, and TCPA Omnibus II?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 10/16/2018

As this year speeds to a close, we are on pins and needles to see if the FCC will issue a ruling this Fall in the great ACA Int’l TCPA remand. After all, the FCC provided only two weeks for comment in its latest Public Notice...more

Crunch time - courts split on definition of autodialer under TCPA and FCC requests immediate supplemental comments

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 10/5/2018

On October 3, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) instituted a brief, immediate, supplemental comment period as it seeks to resolve an issue at the heart of thousands of lawsuits filed under the Telephone Consumer...more

“Potential” TCPA Disaster: Does Marks Re-Introduce the Phantom of Potential Capacity to the TCPA’s ATDS Definition?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 10/5/2018

As we get near Halloween, how about a quick tale of a phantom lurking in our halls? Amidst all of the hubbub surrounding the big Marks opinion a couple weeks back–including the FCC’s decision to re-open the comment period...more

Next in the FCC’s Sights for Alleged Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: IP CTS Program

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 8/2/2018

In June, the FCC approved a package of regulatory measures – Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”), and Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) – directed at reforming the IP Captioned...more

Where to Next? ACA International Decision Prompts FCC Request for Comment on Interpretation and Implementation of the TCPA

Womble Bond Dickinson on 5/17/2018

Comment Date: June 13, 2018 - Reply Comment Date: June 28, 2018 - As we told you in this week’s flash breaking news, less than a week after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its mandate following the ACA Int’l...more

FCC Sets Sights on China

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/8/2018

As yet another example of the U.S. government’s ongoing concerns about the potential vulnerability of U.S. telecommunications networks and supply chains, the FCC recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)...more

FCC Actions Affecting Building Owners

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 8/2/2017

Owners and managers of multi-tenant environments (“MTEs”), such as apartment buildings, filed initial comments in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) proceeding to reexamine various types of arrangements between...more

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