Divided Commission Adopts Incentive Auction Repacking Declaratory Ruling
By a vote of 3-2 (with Commissioners Pai and O’Rielly dissenting), the Federal Communications Commission adopted a controversial Declaratory Ruling clarifying how the repacking...
Commission Sets Tentative October Open Meeting Agenda
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has released the tentative agenda for its October open meeting, scheduled for October 17, 2014. It contains...
Lifeline Providers Must Resolve Inter-Company Household Duplicates
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has announced the implementation of a process for resolving duplicative support provided by multiple Lifeline providers to the...
Henderson to Serve as USAC CEO
FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler has approved the Universal Service Administrative Company’s (USAC) nomination of John Christopher Henderson to serve as the USAC Chief Executive...
Chairman Wheeler Announces CTO Appointment
FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler recently announced that Scott Jordan will be the Commission’s new Chief Technology Officer. Jordan joins the Commission from the University...
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...
Petition Seeks WCS Rule Revisions
Several AT&T-affiliated entities (AT&T) have filed a Petition for Rulemaking requesting that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) open a rulemaking proceeding to...
NAB Sues FCC Over 600 MHz Broadcast Incentive Auction TVStudy Software
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the Commission’s use...
Sprint and T-Mobile Petition for Reconsideration of FCC’s Spectrum Holdings Policies
Sprint and T-Mobile have individually filed petitions for reconsideration of the Commission’s spectrum holdings policies. T-Mobile asks the FCC to reconsider the amount of...
FCC Dismisses 12 Petitions as Moot Due to USF/ICC Transformation Order
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has released an Order that dismisses 12 petitions seeking various forms of relief due to regulatory changes that were...
