Kelcee Griffis

California regulators have ordered T-Mobile to show why it shouldn’t be sanctioned for allegedly providing misleading statements about its legacy 3G network and commitments it made in connection with its deal for Sprint to provide service for Dish’s Boost customers.

The Federal Communications Commission fined two broadband service providers a total of $80,000 in separate actions Wednesday to enforce rules blocking companies from talking with each other about spectrum auction bid strategies.

Federal investments in high-speed internet totaling some $65 billion are included in the Senate’s massive infrastructure bill approved Tuesday, in a major boon to broadband deployment if it gets past a final hurdle in the House.

RKF Engineering, the consulting firm that authored a report showing that it is feasible for 5G services to share the 12 gigahertz band with SpaceX’s Starlink system, responded to what it said was a disingenuous and misleading attack on the study by SpaceX.

The Federal Communications Commission will begin accepting new licensees in the upper portion of the 5.9 GHz band, which the commission split between intelligent transport services and unlicensed wireless traffic in 2020.

Dish Network and Viasat tore into the Federal Communications Commission for authorizing Elon Musk-linked SpaceX to deploy thousands of its Starlink fleet of broadband satellites closer to Earth than originally planned.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to T-Mobile and Dish raising concerns that the planned shutdown of a legacy T-Mobile network could leave the mobile phone customers Dish acquired from Sprint without service.

After weeks of legislative limbo, internet service providers, state governments and consumers are on track to receive a $65 billion boost for their efforts to expand broadband and make it more affordable as part of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that the Senate began debating Wednesday.

The first half of 2021 has ushered in the creation of two major programs to increase internet access in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and has seen the Federal Communications Commission advance a slate of bipartisan initiatives in the absence of a fifth member. Here, Law360 recaps some of the most p…

The D.C. Circuit won’t stop SpaceX from launching more of its Starlink fleet of broadband satellites while rival Viasat challenges the Federal Communications Commission decision that’s allowing the Elon Musk-owned company to operate the constellation closer to Earth.

Frontier Communications Corp. derided the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing the telecom company of offering customers DSL internet service slower than advertised, telling a California federal judge Tuesday the agency “manufactured” the case “in a misguided attempt to sidestep” the U.S. Sup…

In a wave of bipartisan bills, the U.S. House passed legislation Tuesday to spur media ownership diversity, improve data on 911 outages, get Americans more engaged in crafting new wireless standards, and more.

To crack down on extortion plots perpetrated from inside prisons and jails, the Federal Communications Commission is requiring mobile providers to shut down contraband cellphones in correctional facilities.

A Florida federal judge on Monday certified that a lawsuit former President Donald Trump filed last week against YouTube over alleged illegal censorship poses a constitutional question and gave U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland 60 days to decide whether to intervene on behalf of the federal gove…

The Biden administration’s sweeping executive order aimed at improving competition within the U.S., including for high speed internet service, stoked divisions in the broadband industry as some consumer advocates praised a call to restore net neutrality, while industry-backed trade groups criticized…

Despite restoring relaxed local media ownership limits a month ago following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Federal Communications Commission slapped Gray Television with the largest permissible fine for violating a tougher, earlier version of a rule restricting one broadcaster’s hold on a market’…

Former President Donald Trump, in trying another angle to punish Big Tech companies, filed three class actions on Wednesday alleging illegal social media censorship, but attorneys and social media experts say the suits are extremely unlikely to succeed.

A coalition of 68 wellness organizations is lending support to a lawsuit in the D.C. Circuit challenging a Federal Communications Commission rule meant to facilitate the installation of wireless internet equipment in residential areas.

Andrew Golodny of Steptoe & Johnson LLP represented Dish Network on its journey from opposing the Sprint-T-Mobile megamerger to successfully winning merger conditions that prominently included Dish, earning him a spot among the telecom law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising S…

As Congress considers handing a branch of the Commerce Department more responsibility for promoting cybersecurity, it must also ensure a speedy confirmation of a permanent head for the agency, once a candidate is nominated, members of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee heard Wednesday.