FCC Releases Text of E-Rate Modernization Order; Comments on FNPRM Due September 15
The FCC has released the text of its recently adopted E-Rate Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) which takes the...
FCC Grants Wireless Site-based and Mobile-only Licensees an Extension of Construction Deadlines
The Chiefs of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureaus) have granted in part a Petition for...
Comment Deadlines Announced for MFII Petitions for Reconsideration
The FCC has set comment deadlines for seven petitions for reconsideration and/or clarification of a number of the policies and procedures the Commission adopted...
First Amendment to Nationwide Programmatic Agreement Limits Historic Review of Small Antennas
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) has announced the FCC’s signing of the First Amendment to the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for the Collocation of Wireless...
White Paper Explores USF Policy
As part of its continuing effort to begin the process of revising the nation’s communications laws, the U.S. House of Representative’s Energy and Commerce...
Supreme Court Remands Berkeley Cell Phone Case to Ninth Circuit
The Supreme Court has vacated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s decision upholding a Berkeley, California ordinance requiring cell phone retailers...
Quantum Radio Technology May Boost Wireless Communications, Claims NIST
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are claiming that radio technology using quantum physics might enable wireless communications and mapping...
FiberTower License Transfers to AT&T Upheld
The FCC has dismissed, and in the alternative, denied two Applications for Review (AFR) filed by the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) and affirmed the...
FCC Issues Report on Massive 911 Outage
The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) has issued a report on the massive 911 outage that occurred in April...
Kinzinger Bill Aims to Neutralize Broadband Rate Regulation
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) has introduced a short net neutrality bill entitled the "No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act of 2015" (H.R.2666),...
