CommLaw Monitor
Court Rules in FTC’s Favor on “Common Carrier” Status in Cramming Case
On an issue that takes on new-found importance after FTC v. AT&T Mobility, a federal court in Montana granted summary judgment in favor of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a case alleging that the defendants…
FCC Grants Honda Twenty Month Extension to Comply with Video Accessibility Rules
On March 16, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau (Bureau) released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (Order) addressing Honda Motor Co., Ltd’s (Honda) January 2017 petition for limited waiver of…
3GPP Paves Way for Accelerated 5G Standards Development
During a plenary meeting held March 6-9 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) a standards-developing collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations approved an…
Unpacking the FCC’s Open Meeting: Universal Service Funds, Open Internet and More - February 2017
In February, Chairman Ajit Pai presided over his first major open meeting since becoming chairman, at which the Commission adopted items furthering the FCC’s reverse auctions for Universal Service funding and narrowing…
A Closer Look at Pai’s Dissent in the 2015 TCPA Declaratory Ruling
With the D.C. Circuit still considering the appeal of the FCC’s 2015 TCPA Declaratory Ruling and Order, Chairman Pai is limited (for now at least) in what he can do to pursue his vision of the TCPA. Nevertheless, with…