Declaratory ruling

FCC Issues Ruling, Seeks Comments, to Facilitate Implementation of ATSC 3.0 “Broadcast Internet”

By Paul J. Feldman and Peter Tannenwald|2020-06-09T15:41:58-05:00June 9th, 2020|Legal News|

Three years ago, the FCC authorized deployment of a new IP-based broadcast TV standard, ATSC 3.0, with the hopes that TV broadcasters would implement innovative new data transmission services. That has not yet happened to any significant extent; so today the FCC voted to issue a Declaratory Ruling (“Ruling”) that it hopes will remove what...… Continue Reading

FCC Classifies Texting as an Information Service

By Sekoia Rogers|2019-01-10T14:00:29-06:00January 10th, 2019|Legal News|

On December 12, 2018, the FCC (“FCC” or “Commission”) adopted a Declaratory Ruling that finds Short Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) are “information services” under the Communications Act and that these services are not “telecommunications services” or “commercial mobile services”. As a result, SMS/MMS won’t be subjected to the regulatory burdens that...… Continue Reading