Update to FCC’s Covered List: The Commission Identifies Three New Companies as National Security Risks

By |2022-03-31T15:21:00-05:00March 31st, 2022|Legal News|

Last Friday, the FCC expanded its list of companies it believes pose a risk to U.S. national security. The new additions include equipment and services from three companies: Russia’s AO Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas), and China Mobile International USA Inc. Since March of 2021, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has maintained a...… Continue Reading

Update to FCC’s Covered List: The Commission Identifies Three New Companies as National Security Risks

By |2022-03-31T15:21:00-05:00March 31st, 2022|Legal News|

Last Friday, the FCC expanded its list of companies it believes pose a risk to U.S. national security. The new additions include equipment and services from three companies: Russia’s AO Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas), and China Mobile International USA Inc. Since March of 2021, the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has maintained a...… Continue Reading

Political Broadcast Rules on the Agenda for FCC’s January Open Meeting

By |2022-01-11T10:31:00-06:00January 11th, 2022|Legal News|

On January 27, 2022, the FCC will hold its monthly open meeting. The meeting will address increasing the transparency of internet access service providers, amending the definition of a library to clarify that Tribal libraries are eligible for support from the E-Rate program, and resolving issues associated with white space devices and databases. The most...… Continue Reading

Political Broadcast Rules on the Agenda for FCC’s January Open Meeting

By |2022-01-11T10:31:00-06:00January 11th, 2022|Legal News|

On January 27, 2022, the FCC will hold its monthly open meeting. The meeting will address increasing the transparency of internet access service providers, amending the definition of a library to clarify that Tribal libraries are eligible for support from the E-Rate program, and resolving issues associated with white space devices and databases. The most...… Continue Reading

FCC Takes Step Forward to Establishment of Rip and Replace Program

By |2020-12-21T08:45:35-06:00December 21st, 2020|Legal News|

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or the “Commission”) took a significant step forward this month in concretizing its program for extirpating equipment from the country’s communications networks that poses a threat to national security. The Commission’s Order in large part implements the objectives of the Secure and Trusted Networks Act of 2019 (the “Secure Networks...… Continue Reading

Selected New Developments in Broadband – November

By |2020-11-06T10:11:22-06:00November 6th, 2020|Legal News|

Capitol Hill On November 4, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated he is willing to resume negotiations on COVID-19 relief legislation before the end of the year (he had previously indicated no legislation is possible before the end of the year). Whether this would be standalone legislation or part of a necessary government funding package...… Continue Reading

FCC Adopts STIR/SHAKEN Rules to Combat Illegal Robocalls

By |2020-10-09T13:47:00-05:00October 9th, 2020|Legal News|

The Federal Communications Commission recently released a Report and Order (“Order”) to promote the use of the STIR/SHAKEN framework (which we wrote a useful primer on) in combatting caller ID spoofing. The FCC is giving carriers until June 30, 2021 to implement STIR/SHAKEN. However, if a carrier wants to receive exemption from the Caller ID...… Continue Reading

FCC Moves to Add New Fees (and Lower the Cost of Others)

By |2020-09-01T10:54:33-05:00September 1st, 2020|Legal News|

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or the “Commission”) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing the first major overhaul of FCC application fees in 30 years. Licensees (and hopeful licensees) should take heed: while certain fees are proposed to be lowered, many are proposed to increase, some by a substantial amount. Of particular...… Continue Reading

Mobile Service Providers Will Need to Provide Z-Axis Location Data

By |2020-07-30T14:53:35-05:00July 30th, 2020|Legal News|

In an Order adopted July 17th, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) took another step in its mission to make the precise location of wireless emergency calls more and more granular, to help emergency responders to determine the location of a caller who is injured or held captive and unable to communicate his or her...… Continue Reading

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