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Verizon and Verizon Wireless Pay $200,000 to Settle Outage Reporting Investigations

Steve Augustino
March 16, 2012 14:00

Randy Sifers contributed to this blog post. On March 14, 2012, the FCC released two consent decrees settling investigations into Verizon’s and Verizon Wireless’s outage reporting practices. Collectively, the two affiliates will pay $200,000 to resolve a Notice of Apparent Liability...

FCC Extends Outage Reporting Requirements To All Interconnected VoIP Providers

Steve Augustino
March 01, 2012 20:33

On February 21, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Report and Order ("Order") adopting outage reporting requirements for both facilities-based and non-facilities-based interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol ("VoIP") service providers on a mandatory basis...

New U.S. Spectrum Legislation

February 28, 2012 08:57

U.S. Congress Passes Incentive Auction and Public Safety Spectrum Legislation By Alton Burton in Washington, DC On February 17th, Congress passed long-awaited spectrum legislation. The legislation gives the FCC authority to conduct voluntary incentive auctions of underutilized spectrum...

Avoiding Pitfalls in Rooftop Leasing

February 24, 2012 17:31

This week’s post comes to us from Jennifer Bragar. Jennifer is a member of our Portland office’s land use and real estate team. Thank you Jennifer for this week’s post – a great set of practical recommendations for any hotel owner or operator considering a rooftop...

Cognitive Radio Developments

February 22, 2012 14:02

The need to develop means of achieving more efficient spectrum use has led in recent years to a focus on cognitive radio system (CRS) technology. Also called "smart radio," "software defined radio," "dynamic access technology" and doubtless many other terms, one...