CommLaw Monitor

News and analysis from Kelley Drye’s communications practice group

FCC Chairman Outlines Proposal for New Broadband Privacy Rules

On October 6, 2016, Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairman Tom Wheeler published a blog entry on the Commission’s website outlining proposed privacy rules for broadband Internet Service…

Obama Enters the Net Neutrality Ring with a Call for Title II Reclassification

After months of cryptic messages ostensibly in support of new open Internet rules (a policy colloquially known as “net neutrality”), on November 10th, President Obama issued a formal policy statement on the Federal…

Wheeler Seeks to Resurrect and Revamp Net Neutrality Rules in Response to Verizon v. FCC

After dropping hints for the past two weeks, FCC Chairman Wheeler announced several measures Wednesday to respond to the DC Circuit’s decision in Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission, ____ F.3d ___ (D.C. Cir.…

FCC Will Examine Transition to All-IP Networks through Voluntary Service-Based Experiments and Rural Broadband Trials

Today, the FCC adopted a series of steps intended to solicit proposals from communications providers to conduct service-based experiments to explore the transition to all-Internet Protocol (“IP”) networks. Chairman…