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Paul Weiss: Current Telecom Developments

Current Telecom Developments

Paul Weiss
November 30, 2012
3 pages

In this Issue:

FCC Plans Field Hearings on Network Resiliency
Ericsson Files Patent Lawsuit Against Samsung
Google Protests Proposed German Law Requiring Royalty Payments for News Link
Megafon IPO Raises $1.7 Million
Report Predicts Wireless Subscriptions Will Surpass World Population by 2014

Latest Telecoms & Broadcast News

Mintz Levin: FCC Proposes to Establish New Air-to-Ground Mobile Broadband Service for Airline Travelers

May 16, 2013 Telecoms

Wiley Rein: Senator Rockefeller Asks GAO to Study JSAs and SSAs

May 16, 2013 Broadcast

Cahill: Iowa District Court Upholds Iowa Tax Board Ruling that Cable Company’s Provision of VoIP Service Does Not Make it a "Telephone Company" for Property Tax Purposes

May 15, 2013 VoIP

Wiley Rein: June 3, 2013 FCC EEO Deadlines

May 14, 2013 FCC’s Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies
Paul Weiss: Current Telecom Developments

May 14, 2013 Telecoms
Arent Fox: This Week in Telecom

May 13, 2013 Telecoms
Edwards Wildman: Senator McCain Introduces "A La Carte" Television Legislation

May 10, 2013 Broadcast
Arent Fox: Comment Deadlines Established for Rural Call Completion Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

May 10, 2013 Telecoms
Taylor Wessing: Technology Barometer Q2 2013

May 10, 2013 UK: TMT
Willkie Farr & Gallagher: FCC Streamlines and Clarifies Requirements for Common Carrier Wireless Foreign Ownership

May 09, 2013 Telecoms
Eversheds: Ofcom fines Talk Talk £750,000 for making silent and abandoned calls

May 09, 2013 UK: TMT
Shoosmiths: The digital shift: 10 themes shaping the legal agenda

May 09, 2013 UK: TMT
Kelley Drye: FCC Requires Mobile Phone Manufacturers and Service Providers to Make Internet Browsers Accessible to the Blind and Visually Impaired by October 2013

May 08, 2013 Telecoms
Arent Fox: This Week in Telecom

May 06, 2013 Telecoms
Paul Weiss: Current Telecom Developments

May 03, 2013 Telecoms
Dentons: FCC Eases Foreign Ownership Rules

May 02, 2013 Broadcast
Davis Wright Tremaine: FCC Releases Rules Requiring Accessibility of Browsers

May 01, 2013 Telecoms
Wiley Rein: FCC Clarifies Accessibility Requirements for Internet Browsers, and Adopts New Requirements for Browsers Included with Mobile Telephones

May 01, 2013 Telecoms
Pillsbury: FCC Enforcement Monitor

May 01, 2013 Broadcast
Arent Fox: This Week in Telecom

April 29, 2013 Telecoms
Paul Weiss: Current Telecom Developments

April 27, 2013 Telecoms
Locke Lord: Brand Owners Can Protect Trademarks in Trademark Clearinghouse for New gTLD Domain Names

April 25, 2013 ICANN's New Top Level Domains
Fish & Richardson: FCC Revises Part 90 Private Land Mobile Radio Trunking Rules

April 25, 2013 Telecoms
Morgan Lewis: Update on ICANN’s New gTLD Program

April 25, 2013 ICANN's New Top Level Domains
Arnold & Porter: FCC Issues New Rules for Emergency Information and Video Description Services

April 25, 2013 Broadcast
Dentons: FCC Seeks Comment on VoIP Numbering Issues

April 24, 2013 VoIP
Ashurst: Communications newsletter

April 24, 2013 UK: TMT
Bingham: FCC Grants Vonage Conditional Waiver of Numbering Rules; Opens Two Proceedings to Consider Revisions to Traditional Numbering Assignment Rules

April 24, 2013 Telecoms
Mintz Levin: FCC Adopts Order Streamlining Its Foreign Ownership Review Policies

April 24, 2013 Broadcast
Arent Fox: This Week in Telecom

April 22, 2013 Telecoms

FTC Guidance on Mobile Apps

Setting

Edwards Wildman: Regulators are Expressing Heightened Interest in Mobile Apps and Privacy Enforcement: Is Your Company Prepared?

Mayer Brown: Recent US Developments in Mobile Application Privacy

Crowell & Moring: Fierce in February: FTC & Mobile Privacy—Making the Most of the Shortest Month

New Spectrum Legislation Gives FCC Auction Authority

Setting

Mayer Brown: Key Players Weigh In On Historic FCC Incentive Auction Proceeding

Pillsbury: FCC Releases Proposals for Broadcast Spectrum Incentive Auctions

Davis Wright Tremaine: FCC Launches Incentive Auction Proceeding to Free Spectrum for Mobile Broadband and Data

Obama Administration Announces Data Privacy "Principles"

Setting

McDermott Will & Emery: White House Report May Have Long-Term Effect on Consumer Privacy and How Companies Do Business

Ballard Spahr: White House Privacy Plan Includes Strong FTC Enforcement

Orrick: Obama Sets Out Privacy Framework; FTC and DAA Preview Privacy Priorities

The National Broadband Plan

Setting

Squire Sanders: Guidelines on Public Financing of Broadband Infrastructure - Influence the Debate

Bingham: FCC Takes First Step Toward “Repurposing” UHF TV Spectrum for Wireless Broadband Service

Wiley Rein: All Americans Do Not Have Access to Broadband Services - Have We Forgotten Puerto Rico?

ARRA's Broadband Funding Provisions

Setting

Davis Wright Tremaine: Challenges to Round 2 NTIA Stimulus Applications Due May 10

McDermott Will & Emery: NTIA and RUS Announce Next Round of Broadband Stimulus Funding

Sonnenschein: Federal Government Announces $4.8 Billion in Final Round of ARRA Broadband Stimulus Funding: Applications Accepted from February 16-March 15, 2010

FCC's "Net Neutrality" Rules

Setting

Edwards Wildman: Senate Votes to Retain Net Neutrality Regulations

Davis Wright Tremaine: OMB-approved Net Neutrality Rules Become Effective Soon: Detailed Broadband Service Notices Required

Jenner & Block: FCC Open Internet Order: Is Net Neutrality Itself Problematic for Free Speech?

Comcast Ruling Curbing FCC Broadband Authority & FCC's "Third Way" Response

Setting

K&L Gates: FCC Seeks Comment on its “Third Way” Approach to Regulating Broadband Internet Service

Skadden: FCC Takes First Step In An Attempt to Solidify Jurisdiction Over Broadband Internet Access Service

Arnold & Porter: FCC Issues Notice of Inquiry on Reclassification of Broadband

FCC’s Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies

Setting

Wiley Rein: June 3, 2013 FCC EEO Deadlines

Pillsbury: The FCC's Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies – A Guide for Broadcasters

Latham & Watkins: FCC Enforcement of the Broadcasting Equal Employment Opportunity Rules

FCC's New Pole Attachment Rules

Setting

Wiley Rein: Round Two: Joint Use After the D.C. Circuit's Pole Attachment Decision

Arent Fox: Court of Appeals Affirms FCC’s 2011 Pole Attachment Order

Davis Wright Tremaine: U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Affirms FCC Pole Attachment Ruling in Favor of Cable Industry

FCC Adopts Universal Service and Intercarrier Compensation Reform

Setting

Bingham: FCC Clarifies Reseller Exemption Requirements for USF Contributions

Bingham: FCC Clarifies Transition of Intrastate Switched Access Rates and Calculation of Eligible Recovery Under the USF/ICC Transformation Order

Bingham: Comment Deadlines Set for USF Contribution Rulemaking

FCC's Ex Parte Lobbying Rules

Setting

Latham & Watkins: FCC Adopts New Rules Governing Ex Parte Communications

Arent Fox: FCC Amends Ex Parte Rules, Seeks Additional Comment

Davis Wright Tremaine: FCC Implements Revisions to Ex Parte Lobbying Rules

VoIP

Setting

Cahill: Iowa District Court Upholds Iowa Tax Board Ruling that Cable Company’s Provision of VoIP Service Does Not Make it a "Telephone Company" for Property Tax Purposes

Dentons: FCC Seeks Comment on VoIP Numbering Issues

Davis Wright Tremaine: FCC Issues New International Service Reporting Rules–All VoIP Providers Must Register; Many Other New Requirements

FCC's Mobile Data Roaming Rules

Setting

SNR Denton: FCC Mandates Mobile Data Roaming

Davis Wright Tremaine: FCC Adopts Data Roaming Rules to Expand Mobile Broadband Access

Arent Fox: Federal Communications Commission Adopts “Wireless Data Roaming” Order by 3-2 Vote

DOJ & FCC Allow Comcast-NBCU JV to Proceed (with Conditions)

Setting

Kilpatrick Townsend: DOJ & FCC Approve Comcast-NBC Acquisition

King & Spalding: DOJ & FCC Allow Comcast-NBCU Joint Venture to Proceed with Conditions

Davis Wright Tremaine: FCC and DOJ Allow the Comcast-NBCU Joint Venture to Proceed with Conditions

FCC v AT&T: No Corporate Privacy Exception Under FOIA

Setting

Sidley Austin: Supreme Court Limits Freedom of Information Act Exemptions

Jenner & Block: The Supreme Court Issues Rulings In First Amendment And FOIA Cases

Haynes and Boone: Nothing Personal: Supreme Court Denies Corporate Privacy Exception Under FOIA

FCC v. Fox Television & "Fleeting Expletives"

Setting

Edwards Wildman: Supreme Court Leaves FCC Broadcast Indecency Regime in Place While Invalidating Fleeting Indecency Decisions Against Fox and ABC

Paul Weiss: Second Circuit Review: Court Strikes Down FCC’s ‘Fleeting Expletives’ Policy

Hogan & Hartson: Changes in Administrative Law May Prove An Easier Lift

Wilson Sonsini: Eye on Privacy Newsletter - May 2013

Mintz Levin: FCC Proposes to Establish New Air-to-Ground Mobile Broadband Service for Airline Travelers

Wiley Rein: Senator Rockefeller Asks GAO to Study JSAs and SSAs

Cahill: Iowa District Court Upholds Iowa Tax Board Ruling that Cable Company’s Provision of VoIP Service Does Not Make it a "Telephone Company" for Property Tax Purposes

White & Case: Federal Legislation Introduced Regarding Mobile Application Privacy

Bryan Cave: “Test-Shopping” by FTC Results in Warning Letters to Data Broker Companies

Wiley Rein: June 3, 2013 FCC EEO Deadlines

Paul Weiss: Current Telecom Developments

Arent Fox: This Week in Telecom

Edwards Wildman: Senator McCain Introduces "A La Carte" Television Legislation

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