CommLaw Monitor
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…
Compliance Reminders: FCC Filings Due August 2011; FCC Form 477 Compliance Webinar; FCC Annual Regulatory Fees
Form 499Q: Quarterly Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet Carriers required to contribute to federal universal service support mechanisms must report their actual and projected end user and wholesale revenues for…
FCC Adopts Anti-Spoofing Rules Implementing Truth In Caller ID Act
Implementing the Truth in Caller ID Act passed last December, the FCC adopted rules prohibiting the fraudulent manipulation of caller ID information. These so-called anti-"spoofing" rules track the statutory language…
Comment Dates Set for Proposed Expansion of Outage Reporting Rules to VoIP Services
Last month, we noted that the FCC is proposing to expand outage reporting obligations to interconnected VoIP providers, broadband Internet access providers and to Internet backbone providers. The new rules propose…
FCC Releases Text of VoIP Outage NRPM; Latency, Jitter Proposed as Reporting Triggers
As we discussed previously, the FCC is proposing to extend outage reporting obligations to interconnected VoIP providers, broadband Internet access providers and to Internet "backbone" providers. With the release of…