FCC Announces Update to PSAP Text-to-911 Readiness Registry
The Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has issued a public notice announcing that it has updated the FCC's Public Safety...
FCC Adopts Landmark Broadband Orders
In a dramatic open meeting that featured guest speakers from the online, technology and entertainment industries, the FCC officially adopted two orders that boldly...
Push for Delayed Net Neutrality Vote and Public Disclosure of Order Rebuffed by Chairman
Three days before the FCC’s February 26 meeting, Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly have made a last-ditch effort to delay the FCC’s net...
February 26 FCC Meeting Officially Will Tackle Key Broadband Issues
The FCC has formalized its agenda for its February 26 open meeting, which will address two major broadband related items. First, the Commission will...
FCC Clarifies Rural Call Completion Requirements
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has issued a declaratory ruling that provides additional guidance regarding how providers that are subject to the FCC’s...
Senators Klobuchar and Fischer Re-Introduce Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) recently introduced S. 417, the “Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act.” The purpose of this legislation is to “encourage spectrum licensees to...
Wi-Fi Innovation Act Re-Introduced in House and Senate
On February 10, 2015, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Wi-Fi Innovation Act (S. 424) in the U.S. Senate and...
FCC Dismisses Verizon Pole Attachment Complaint
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) has dismissed a pole attachment complaint filed by incumbent local exchange carrier Verizon Florida LLC (Verizon) that alleges that...
Commission Proposes Additional Voice Channels in 800 MHz Band
The Federal Communications Commission has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes creating new, full power, interstitial 12.5 kHz offset channels in...
Virginia Governor and North Dakota Legislator Join Intergovernmental Advisory Committee
Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Tom Wheeler recently announced the appointments of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and North Dakota State Representative Blair Thoreson to fill...
