CommLaw Monitor
News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group
FCC’s November Meeting Agenda Focuses on Enabling Text-to-988 for Suicide Prevention and Spectrum Access to Close the Digital Divide
The FCC released a light agenda for its next Commission Open Meeting, scheduled for November 18, 2021. The agency will consider a Second Report and Order to require covered text providers to support text messaging to…
Proposed Wireless Infrastructure Item Clarifies Rules Concerning Local Reviews to Speed 5G Deployments
A draft Declaratory Ruling and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM"), if adopted, would clarify the agency’s 2014 rules governing the process state and local governments use to review deployments of new antenna and…
FCC Plans to Finalize Phase I RDOF Auction Procedures and Explore 5G Use of High-Band Frequencies at June Meeting
The FCC plans to focus on “ bread and butter ” issues of broadband deployment and expanding commercial spectrum use at its next meeting, scheduled for June 9, 2020. Specifically, the FCC anticipates adopting final…