CommLaw Monitor
Two FCC Commissioners Signal Support for Extension of Outage Reporting to VoIP
Yesterday, the FCC held its "Workshop/Webinar" on the pending proposal to extend the outage reporting requirements to interconnected VoIP and to broadband service providers. We've noted several times that the FCC staff…
FCC Proposes $5 Million Fines Against Multiple Prepaid Card Providers
We noted in April 2010 that the FCC was investigating prepaid calling card provider disclosures . We suspected that action was likely when we saw four notices of apparent liability against unidentified companies appear…
DOJ Asks Federal Court to Block $39B AT&T / T-Mobile Merger
Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. seeking to block the $39B AT&T / T-Mobile merger. DOJ claims that the deal would violate U.S. antitrust law by…
Does the Ooma Outage Portend of New FCC Rules?
Interconnected VoIP provider Ooma suffered a three-hour outage late last week. Ooma identified the cause of the outage as "an extremely rare power failure at a portion of our data center," but the effect of the outage…
2011 Regulatory Fee Update -- Fees Due September 14
As in years, past, we're tracking the FCC Regulatory fees for you. The Regulatory Fee is an annual assessment mandated by Congress to recover most of the FCC's cost of doing business. Regulatory fees are recovered…