Unclear Billing Charges Violate FCC Truth-in-Billing Rules and the Act
The FCC has issued a Declaratory Ruling in response to a petition filed by parties involved in litigation over a billing dispute, declaring that...
Level 3 Network Outage Largest Ever Reported to FCC
The FCC's Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division (Division) has released a report scrutinizing Level 3 Communications’ (Level 3) major network outage. The Division stated...
FCC Rejects Request for Tower EA
The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s Competition and Infrastructure Policy Division (Division) has issued an order declining to require PI Telecom Infrastructure LLC (Parallel), acting...
Lottery Directs Net Neutrality Challenges to Ninth Circuit
Lawsuits filed by various public and private plaintiffs (including 22 state attorneys general, advocacy groups, and Internet companies such as Mozilla, Etsy and Vimeo)...
Alaska Plan Requirements Modified, Clarified in Reconsideration Order
The FCC’s Wireline Competition and Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus (Bureaus) have partially granted an Alaska Telephone Association (ATA) Petition for Reconsideration regarding Alaska Plan map...
List of Model-Based CAF Phase II Areas Revised for Price Cap Carriers
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has released a revised list of census blocks eligible for model-based Connect America Fund Phase II (CAF2) support...
Straight Path and Verizon Pay Largest Civil Penalty Ever
Straight Path Communications and Verizon Communications have paid the largest civil penalty ever to the U.S. Treasury, over $600 million, to resolve an FCC...
Mobility Fund Phase II Challenge Process Set for March 29-August 27; Map and Details...
The FCC's wireless and wireline bureaus and Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force (Bureaus) have scheduled the 150-day Mobility Fund Phase II (MF2) challenge process...
NTIA To Study the 3450-3550 MHz Band for Commercial Wireless Services
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) has decided to conduct a feasibility study on repurposing the 3450-3550 MHz band currently used for military radar systems for...
Ninth Circuit Affirms FTC Authority over ISPs
In an en banc decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may regulate...
