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Angela E. Giancarlo, Donald K. Stockdale, Howard W. Waltzman; Mayer Brown LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 22, 2013, previously published on May 20, 2013 Over the past eight months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) has issued two decisions that modernize and streamline its foreign investment policies for certain radio licensees, including wireless telecommunications carriers. In addition, the Commission recently initiated a...
| | FCC Increases Tower Enforcement Efforts
Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy Ecker P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article May 21, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 Over the past couple of weeks the Enforcement Bureau has issued four Notices of Apparent Liability (NAL) for violation of the Commission’s tower rules. Two of the NALs involve the failure of site owners to enclose AM transmission towers within effective locked fences or other such enclosures....
| | FCC Ruling: Companies Can Be Held Vicariously Liable Under the TCPA for Actions Taken by Third-Party Vendors
David N. Anthony, Virginia Bell Flynn, John C. Lynch, Jason E. Manning, Alan D. Wingfield; Troutman Sanders LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 The law is clear that if a company makes a call for telemarketing or solicitation purposes then it can be subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). An open question has been whether that same company, which hires an outside third-party vendor to make these calls on the...
| | FCC Proposes to Establish New Air-to-Ground Mobile Broadband Service for Airline Travelers
Darren J. Abernethy, Sallye Clark, Benjamin J. Griffin; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued last week, the FCC proposed to establish a new, terrestrial-based, air-to-ground (“ATG”) mobile broadband service in the 14.0-14.5 GHz Ku-band, providing multi-gigabyte broadband connectivity for passengers flying over the contiguous United...
| | Copyright Office Seeks Comment on Compromise Proposal for Rules Governing Audits of Compulsory License Statements of Account
Seth A. Davidson, Arthur H. Harding; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 16, 2013, previously published on May 2013 As part of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 Congress, Congress directed the Copyright Office “to issue regulations to provide for the confidential verification by copyright owners...of the information reported [by cable operators] on the semiannual statements of...
| | Senator McCain Introduces "A La Carte" Television Legislation
Seth A. Davidson, Arthur H. Harding; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2013, previously published on May 2013 On May 9, 2013, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced the “Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013.” The bill seeks to remove barriers to, and create incentives for wholesale and retail unbundling of broadcast stations and other channels of video programming. The bill also contains...
| | Mexico’s New Telecommunications Legal Framework
Alberto de la Parra; Jones Day;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2013, previously published on May 2013 On December 2, 2012, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto entered into the Pact for Mexico ("Pacto por México") with the major political parties. The Pact calls, among others, for an amendment to the telecommunications legal framework. Thus, the President submitted to the...
| | ALJ Shaw Issues Public Version Of Rulings On Discovery Motions In Certain Video Analytics Software (337-TA-795)
John F. Presper, Christopher Ricciuti; Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2013, previously published on May 8, 2013 On April 23, 2013, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public versions of Order No. 21 and Order No. 25 (dated April 16, 2012 and June 21, 2012, respectively) in Certain Video Analytics Software, Systems, Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-795).
| | FCC Grants Vonage Conditional Waiver of Numbering Rules; Opens Two Proceedings to Consider Revisions to Traditional Numbering Assignment Rules
Ronald W. Del Sesto, Andrew D. Lipman; Bingham McCutchen LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 26, 2013, previously published on April 22, 2013 During its April 2013 open meeting, the FCC adopted an Order, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”), and a Notice of Inquiry (“NOI”) addressing historic telephone numbering assignment practices. The FCC issued an Order allowing Vonage to obtain a limited amount of numbers...
| | FCC Grants Charter Conditional Waiver of Navigation Device “Integration Ban” to Facilitate Development of Downloadable Security
Seth A. Davidson, Arthur H. Harding; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 24, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Charter Communications a conditional two-year waiver of the prohibition on “integrated” set-top boxes in Section 76.1204(a)(1) of the FCC’s rules. The order, issued by the FCC’s Media Bureau on April 18, 2013, concluded...
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