FCC opens the door to vicarious liability for third-party telemarketing under certain conditions *

USA - May 15 2013
In response to two petitions for Declaratory Ruling, on May 9, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") ruled that sellers may be held…

Co-authors: Lauri A. Mazzuchetti, Steve Augustino, Lewis Rose, Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik, Joseph A. Boyle.

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FCC requires mobile phone manufacturers and service providers to make internet browsers accessible to the blind and visually impaired by October 2013 *

USA - May 7 2013
In the latest of its orders to implement the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 ("CVAA"), the FCC released a…

Co-authors: Steve Augustino, Joshua Guyan.

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Reminder: FCC filings due May 1, 2013 *

USA - April 12 2013
Carriers required to contribute to Universal Service support mechanisms must report their actual and projected end user and wholesale revenues for…

Co-authors: Denise Smith.

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Reminder: FCC filings due April 1, 2013 *

USA - March 12 2013
All intrastate, interstate and international providers of telecommunications within the United States, including interconnected VoIP providers…

Co-authors: Denise Smith.

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Federal Communications Commission identifies anticompetitive practices on United States-Pakistan route and prohibits U.S. carriers from making payments in excess of previously-negotiated termination rates *

Pakistan, USA - March 7 2013
On March 5, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") released a Memorandum Opinion and Order in IB Docket No. 12-324, granting a…

Co-authors: Robert Aamoth, Steve Augustino, Denise Smith.

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