CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

Tailor-Made: FCC Recognizes Need for Bespoke Rules for Smallsats

On April 17, 2018 the Federal Communications Commission adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (“ NPRM ”) that seeks to streamline and otherwise tailor the agency’s current one-size-fits-all satellite regulations for…

FCC Takes Small Step toward Making New Satellite Rules Effective

For more than six months since adopting comprehensive revisions to the Federal Communications Commission’s Part 25 rules governing licensing and operations of satellites and earth stations, uncertainty regarding when…