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Richard Davis, Lawrence R. Freedman; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 24, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On February 6, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released a 339-page Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FCC 12-11) establishing comprehensive reforms to the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline program. The FCC’s enacted its reforms to...
| | USF/ICC Clarifications
Richard Davis, Lawrence R. Freedman; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article February 22, 2012, previously published on February 21, 2012 On February 3, 2012, the Wireline Competition Bureau (“WCB”) and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (“WTB”) of the Federal Communications Commission (‘FCC”) issued an Order (DA 12-147) clarifying, modifying, and eliminating a number of FCC rules impacted by the...
| | Controversial Net Neutrality Rules Set to Go Into Effect on November 20
Richard Davis, Lawrence R. Freedman, Craig A. Gilley, Arthur H. Harding; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article October 14, 2011, previously published on October 11, 2011 On September 23, 2011, the FCC’s year-old "Open Internet Order" and associated net neutrality rules were published in the Federal Register. This event triggered a 60-day countdown until November 20 for the order and rules to go into effect.
| | Ninth Circuit Rules that Restrictions on Compensation for ISP-Bound Traffic Apply to Traffic Exchanged between Competitors
Richard Davis, Lawrence R. Freedman; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 30, 2011, previously published on June 2011 On June 21, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) and lower court ruling forcing AT&T to pay PacWest over $10 million in charges for PacWest’s termination of AT&T end user calls to dial-up Internet...
| | Supreme Court Rules that Incumbents Must Provide "Entrance Facilities" to Competitors at Cost-Based Rates
Richard Davis, Lawrence R. Freedman; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article June 15, 2011, previously published on June 2011 On June 9, 2011, the United States Supreme Court resolved a split among the federal courts on how much incumbent telephone companies, like AT&T, can charge for competitors to interconnect with the incumbent’s networks. Specifically, in the consolidated cases of Talk America Inc. v. Michigan...
| | FCC Proposes Network Outage Reporting for Interconnected VoIP and Broadband Internet Service Providers
Richard Davis, Lawrence R. Freedman; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 27, 2011, previously published on May 2011 On May 12, 2011, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes rules under which providers of interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service and broadband Internet service would report outages of at least thirty minutes. According to the FCC, these network outage...
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