CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

FCC's Genachowski Proposes Net Neutrality Rules, Creates Firestorm

Since April, the FCC has been struggling with how to react to the Court's reversal of the Comcast P2P blocking order . Today, Chairman Genachowski announced that he plans to move forward to adopt net neutrality rules…

AT&T Settles Multiple Privacy Investigations for $200,000

Yesterday, the FCC released an Order adopting a consent decree resolving several investigations into failures of AT&T’s CPNI opt-out practices. In the settlement, AT&T agreed to make a $200,000 voluntary contribution…

AT&T Access Charge Lawsuits Against Prepaid Card Providers Moving Forward

Long time readers of the blog will know that we've been following AT&T's attempts to collect access charges for local calls delivered via intermediaries to prepaid card providers. The background is available here:…

FCC Clears States to Impose USF Fees Prospectively on Intrastate Nomadic VoIP Services

As has been expected, the FCC late Friday released an order finding that states can require nomadic interconnected VoIP providers such as Vonage to pay state universal service fund contributions on a prospective basis…

Telecom Law Monitor Feature: Regulatory Requirements for VoIP Services

Our post about the unique enforcement posture of interconnected VoIP quickly became the most popular post on the Telecom Law Monitor. One person asked if we could elaborate on the differences in regulatory treatment…