CommLaw Monitor
Federal Register Publication Marks Beginning of Net Neutrality Litigation
One long march is finally over, another one begins. After OMB approval of the rules was announced earlier this week, today, the FCC published the Net Neutrality Order in the Federal Register . The 44 page summary is…
FCC Extends Regulatory Fee Deadline Until Friday
If you missed last night's deadline for making FCC regulatory fee payments, there's good news. The FCC extended the deadline by 48 hours; Fees are now due by September 16 at 11:59 pm . Late payments after that date…
USF Contribution Factor Again Tops 15%
Today the FCC announced the proposed universal service contribution factor for the fourth quarter of 2011. Based in large part on recently revised projections showing an increase in low income demand (largely due to…
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…