Special Access Data Collection Approved – With Changes
The Office of Management and Budget has approved, with changes, the FCC’s mandatory reporting requirement regarding special access services. Among others, the changes include...
FAA Now Requires Infrared LEDs in Obstruction Lighting Fixtures
The FAA has released an updated Obstruction Marking and Lighting Advisory Circular (70/7460-1L Change 2) requiring that LED L-810, L-864 and L-885 obstruction light fixtures...
AT&T and U.S. Cellular Seek FCC Consent to PCS Spectrum Swap
AT&T, Inc. (AT&T) and United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular), along with various subsidiaries, are seeking Federal Communications Commission (FCC) consent to the simultaneous...
Excess High-Cost Cash Not to Be Counted for 2018 Contribution Factor
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has directed the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) not to consider any excess 2017 high-cost Universal Service Fund...
Report Details Robust Wi-Fi in Schools Under Chairman’s E-Rate Reforms
The FCC has released a report showing the potential number of additional students, schools, and libraries that would gain E-Rate program funding needed for...
FCC Adopts Indoor E911 Location Accuracy Rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted a Report and Order containing rules governing the level of 911 caller location accuracy that must be...
Commission Unanimously Adopts Incentive Auction Interference Order and NPRM
The Federal Communications Commission has released a Second Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing several outstanding issues related to the...
Bureau Releases Rural Census Tracts and Anticipates Future Action in 3.5 GHz Proceeding
On April 17, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission Adopted a Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (collectively, 3.5 GHz Order)...
FCC Releases Form 477 Broadband Deployment Data
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau have released data on fixed and mobile broadband deployment as of December 31, 2014, collected...
AT&T Faces $100M Fine for Running Afoul of Transparency Rule
AT&T Mobility (AT&T) has been hit with an FCC record-setting $100 million proposed forfeiture for alleged violations of the FCC’s 2010 Open Internet Transparency...
