CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

FCC Commissioner Baker Joining Comcast/NBCU

Today, FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced that she is resigning from the Commission as of June 3, 2011. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that she will join Comcast as Senior Vice President of…

FCC Asked (Again) to Classify Text Messaging

Once again, USAC and the federal Universal Service Fund are driving fundamental classification questions regarding telecom services. In the latest example, USAC has requested the FCC's guidance on how to treat text…

VoIP Outage Reporting Makes May FCC Meeting Agenda

It has taken nearly a year since the FCC's Public Safety Bureau first started laying the groundwork, but the FCC is poised to consider expanding its outage reporting rules to cover interconnected VoIP communications…

Join Us on May 16 for the Webinar, "Mobile Applications: Privacy and Data Security Considerations"

Do you know what kind of data your smartphone apps are collecting? Understanding the flow of data, how it is shared, and whether your apps collect sensitive information such as mobile payments or location-based data…

Join Kelley Drye's May 10th Webinar Discussing Implications of FCC's Recent Pole Attachment Order

Access to and rates for pole attachments under Section 224 of the Communications Act have been issues of both importance and contention for facilities-based broadband providers of all types, more traditional providers…