CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

As E-rate Reform Approaches, Chairman Wheeler Unveils His Proposed Revisions

After a year of broad pronouncements about the need for reforming the E-rate program, the FCC is poised to adopt new E-rate rules at its open meeting in July. Concurrent with his circulation of the E-rate item to his…

Inexperience and Inadvertence No Excuse for Failure to Seek and Obtain FCC Consent to License Acquisitions

A recent Enforcement Bureau (“EB”) Order and Consent Decree highlights the perils that attend failure to get FCC approvals to transfer or assign wireless licenses. The March 13, 2014, release, involving Skybeam…

Wheeler Seeks to Resurrect and Revamp Net Neutrality Rules in Response to Verizon v. FCC

After dropping hints for the past two weeks, FCC Chairman Wheeler announced several measures Wednesday to respond to the DC Circuit’s decision in Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission, ____ F.3d ___ (D.C. Cir.…

FCC Will Examine Transition to All-IP Networks through Voluntary Service-Based Experiments and Rural Broadband Trials

Today, the FCC adopted a series of steps intended to solicit proposals from communications providers to conduct service-based experiments to explore the transition to all-Internet Protocol (“IP”) networks. Chairman…

FCC Signals Intent to Take Strong Action against Unlicensed Broadband Operations That Interfere with FAA Weather Radar Systems

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