CommLaw Monitor
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…
E-rate Gift Rules Continue to Confuse
Last September, the FCC adopted new rules governing gifts received by applicants for disbursements under the FCC's Schools and Libraries program of the Universal Service Fund (known as the "e-rate" program). Although…
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…
Alpheus Settles Outage Reporting NAL for $55,000
As the Commission is proposing to expand its outage reporting rules, the Enforcement Bureau is moving closer to establishing base forfeitures for violations of the outage reporting requirements. A settlement released…