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Broadcast Law Blog
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 30, 2025 to July 3, 2025
By David Oxenford, Keenan Adamchak
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
Wireline Competition Bureau Provides Limited Waiver for Form 481 Certification Deadline
The Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) has granted a limited waiver of the July 1, 2025, deadline for certifying FCC Form 481 for carriers authorized for Enhanced A-CAM support. Carriers not…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
TRS Fund Administrator Submits Payment Formulas and Funding Requirements for TRS Fund
The FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (Bureau) is seeking comment on the Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Fund administrator’s proposed provider compensation formulas, funding requirements, and contribution factors for the…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Announces Study Area Boundary Recertification Deadline
The FCC’s Office of Economics and Analytics, in conjunction with the Wireline Competition Bureau, has announced the biennial recertification deadline for study area boundary data, which is June 30, 2025. …
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Considers Nondelegation Challenge to FCC’s Universal Service Program
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Mark Magyar, Christopher Sakauye
In a case with potentially sweeping implications for administrative and constitutional law, the Supreme Court is weighing whether the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) administration of universal telecommunications services violates the…
Broadcast Law Blog
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 14, 2025 to April 18, 2025
By David Oxenford, Keenan Adamchak
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these…
Global Policy Watch
Brazil’s Internet of Things Tax Relief Due to Expire in 2025
By Diego Bonomo
Four Internet of Things (IoT) related tax relief provisions are due to expire on December 31, 2025. Two bills were introduced in Brazil’s National Congress to extend these provisions and…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Launches Investigation into CCP-Aligned Entities on the Covered List
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has announced that the FCC’s recently established Council on National Security is leading an investigation into the ongoing U.S. operations of CCP-aligned businesses whose equipment or…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Adopts a Series of Orders to Streamline Copper Retirements
The FCC has released a series of orders streamlining the FCC’s rules and procedures for transitioning away from legacy copper networks. One of the Orders granted a USTelecom – the…
FCC Law Blog
ALERT: Delete, Delete, Delete—FCC Calls for Comment on Which Rules Should be Eliminated
By Brian Weimer, Drew Svor, Austin Shepherd, Emily Dalessio, Ethan Lamb, Taiye Kolawole
On March 12th, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") issued a Public Notice (“Notice”) seeking comment on which FCC rules should be repealed or modified to alleviate “unnecessary regulatory burdens”…