Tag: Regulation

December 20, 2023

Early in December, policymakers in the European Union made some important and decisive steps forward in taking the lead in global AI regulation. This action, though not yet ready for codification, will have a significant impact on the development and […]

January 25, 2022

I hadn’t planned to write about the regulatory spat between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) surrounding the C-band radio spectrum, but here we are. The reason I’d mostly ignored it was because I assumed […]

April 29, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been present in our professional and civilian lives for a while, but both the European Union (EU) and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have recently taken prominent steps to recognize its power and potential harm. […]

December 4, 2020

This year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers passed The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which will require Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers to follow new security standards to sell to the federal government. While this doesn’t directly impact […]

December 4, 2019

I’ve written about privacy regulation before. But on Jan. 1, 2020, when the California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect, the importance of managing privacy for California residents and entities will take on a whole new level of seriousness. Aside from […]

October 29, 2019

The Supreme Court decision, released on Monday, Oct. 21, not to hear an appeal of a case about whether Charter Advanced Services’ VoIP offering can be regulated by the Minnesota public utilities commission (PUC) has major implications for the communications […]

October 14, 2019

Greetings from New York City (aerial shot of Manhattan pictured), Philadelphia and Davidson/ Charlotte. This week’s Sunday Brief is kind of lengthy but worth careful reading as we have entered a new phase of state-based regulation (many current and former […]

October 7, 2019

GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation has been in effect for one year since May 25, 2018. GDPR impacts data related to European Union citizens no matter where it is collected, stored, processed, and, accessed independent of where the EU […]

April 22, 2019

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee — better known as the CSMAC — has a new roster of 30 outside expert members, appointed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. The CSMAC is led by co-chairs […]

April 19, 2019

CSG (NASDAQ: CSGS), the trusted partner to simplify the complexity of business transformation in the digital age, today announced the availability of a new capability to help carriers facilitate the trading, routing of and settlements of calls based on A-Number […]

April 9, 2019

The U.S. government is no longer urging Germany to ban Chinese vendor Huawei, as it is satisfied with the strict regulations set by the European country for the provision of 5G network equipment, according to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. […]

November 1, 2016

Verizon is facing new accusations from the CWA and two consumer advocacy groups which claim that the telco continues to threaten to cut off service to DSL and legacy voice customers unless they switch to fiber. The charges come as […]

October 7, 2016

EPB says that while it is still limited by Tennessee law to selling 1 Gbps FTTH service within its defined borders, the municipal fiber provider for Chattanooga is confident that growing demand for higher speed broadband could drive a change […]

October 5, 2016

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has proposed re-regulation of the business data services (BDS) market, with price-cuts in markets deemed “non-competitive” as the primary tool.  The vast majority of BDS is sold to wireline, wireless, and cable networks and to […]

August 24, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission’s 600 MHz incentive auction entered its eighth round of bidding having scored more than $11.5 billion in total auction proceeds connected to “winning” bids, with just under $11 billion in net auction proceeds. The final two […]

July 5, 2016

After more than 30 years working in telecom regulation, it is more than clear that there are three industry truisms: First, whenever a telecom company proposes something that is in the “public interest,” it really means that proposal is in […]

April 20, 2016

AT&T has reiterated its argument that the FCC should remove the existing nondiscrimination requirements that apply to facilities-based IMTS traffic arrangements on the U.S.-Cuba route. By removing the nondiscrimination rules, AT&T said consumers would benefit by gaining more economical methods […]