The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the federal Universal Service Fund (USF)'s funding regime on the final day for releasing opinions of its 2024 term. In FCC v. Consumers' Research, the Court reversed the U.S....more
Broadband and telecommunications service providers should redouble efforts to comply with the rules of the FCC's "E-Rate" program that subsidizes service to schools and libraries as a result of a Supreme Court ruling that...more
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Wireline Competition Bureau announced Monday that the last fully funded month for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) will be April 2024 absent additional funding from...more
In 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) under a finite $14.2 billion Congressional appropriation that is now forecast to be exhausted by April 2024. The FCC has...more
Update: OMB approved the FCC's broadband disclosure rules on October 10, 2023, meaning that most of the rules will become applicable to ISPs with more than 100,000 subscriber lines on April 10, 2024, and to all other ISPs on...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking comment on new proposed robocall mitigation and enforcement rules that would include...more
Update September 24, 2021: The FCC has extended the deadline for regulatory fee payments to September 27 at 11:59 P.M. Eastern time. The FCC Regulatory Fees applicable to most regulated entities must be paid by 11:59 pm...more
On Thursday, October 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its Order on Remand (adopted at its October 27 meeting), responding to the D.C. Circuit's remand of certain aspects of the agency's earlier...more
As we previously advised, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reinstated its customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”) rules governing the privacy obligations of telecommunications and VoIP service providers...more
This is to remind our clients that the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rules require every telecommunications and interconnected VoIP service provider (including wireless, cable telephony, and even paging and...more
This is to remind our clients that, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 222(c), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires every telecommunications and interconnected VoIP service provider (including wireless, cable telephony,...more
December 15 is now set as the deadline by which nearly all cable operators, telecommunications carriers, and many others must respond to an extensive FCC special access data collection, per an Order on Reconsideration...more
This is to remind our clients that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires every telecommunications and interconnected VoIP service provider (including wireless, cable telephony, and even paging and calling card...more