FCC Seeks Comment on Petitions to Forbear or Clarify New TCPA Rules
Earlier today, the FCC placed on public notice two petitions requesting that the agency clarify or forbear from enforcing certain aspects of its new TCPA regulations that went into effect on October...
View ArticleCourt Strikes Net Neutrality Rules, Leaves Path for Other Broadband Regulations
A federal appeals court struck down key parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet Order in a Jan. 14 decision, ruling that the FCC’s “net neutrality” rules improperly regulate...
View ArticleAnnual FCC CPNI Certification Due by March 1
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Enforcement Bureau issued a reminder that annual CPNI certifications for calendar year 2013 must be filed with the FCC by March 1, 2014. The...
View ArticleFCC Issues “Enforcement Advisory” Warning Political Campaigns and Promoters...
Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau issued an advisory reminding political campaigns about the restrictions placed on the use of autodialed calls, prerecorded calls,...
View ArticleD.C. Circuit Extends Stay in Battle Over Access to Content Companies’...
By Nicholas Dashman This morning the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted a stay of an FCC order that would have made hundreds of thousands of pages of highly confidential unredacted...
View ArticleSTELAR (STELA Reauthorization) Enacted
The STELA Reauthorization Act (“STELAR”) has been signed into law by the President. STELAR extends the statutory copyright license for satellite carriage of distant signals for another five years...
View ArticleFCC Tentatively Concludes that Certain Online Video Distributors are MPVDs
On December 19, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) relating to the designation of certain online video programming distributors as “multichannel video programming distributors”...
View ArticleAT&T Challenges FTC Jurisdiction Over Non-Common Carrier Activities of Common...
As we previously reported, in October 2014 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against AT&T in federal court alleging that AT&T’s “throttling” practices for mobile broadband...
View ArticleFCC Releases NPRM Regarding STELAR’s Market Modification Provisions
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in which it proposes satellite television “market modification” rules to implement Section 102 of the...
View ArticleRules on Net Neutrality and Roaming Charges Finally Adopted
On 27 October 2015, the European Parliament adopted the new Telecoms Single Market legislation without a number of proposed amendments relating to net neutrality. As a result, while the Regulation...
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