FCC Announces New Forfeiture Methodology for Federal Program Payment Rule Violations
Telecommunications service providers are required to pay federal regulatory fees and make timely contributions to the Universal Service Fund (USF), the Telecommunications Relay Service...
PSAP Text-to-911 Readiness Registry Now Ready
The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has announced the availability of the FCC’s Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Text-to-911 Readiness and Certification...
WCB Grants Rural Call Completion Waiver, Addresses MF Signaling
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) has addressed two petitions for waiver of the FCC’s rural call completion recording, retention, and reporting requirements. First,...
Incentive Auction and Competitive Bidding Comment Deadlines Again Extended
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) has again extended the comment deadlines applicable to the Incentive Auction Comment and...
FCC Commissioner Announces Staff Departures and Appointments
Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel recently announced that two of her staff members will be departing the Commission for Capitol Hill. David Goldman, who...
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...
AWS-3 Auction Draws to a Historic Close
After two months, 341 rounds, and nearly $44.9 billion of bids, the FCC’s AWS-3 auction (Auction 97) has drawn to a close. In the...
Media Bureau Sets May 29 as Pre-Incentive Auction Broadcaster License Deadline
The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) Media Bureau has designated May 29, 2015 as the pre-Incentive Auction licensing deadline by which full power...
FTC Report Recommends Security Practices for The Internet of Things
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a report on the “Internet of Things” in which FTC staff “recommend a series of concrete steps...
Wireless Bureau Sets Deadline for Oppositions to Applications for Review in Data Roaming Proceeding
AT&T and Verizon Wireless have each filed “applications for review” with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) in an attempt to reverse an earlier...
