GLG News by FCC Telecommunications Experts: Lawyers

When ordinary Americans live beyond their means, disapprobation comes from every quarter, including the federal government. When our government lives beyond its means, bankrupting our children and grandchildren, we Americans avert the disapproving glance. Instead, we even elect government officials...

The problem America faces is not that our processes to review foreign investments are broken. Instead, our challenge is that America is economically a much weaker country today than we were a year ago. Developing rules that punish law-abiding investors will not help America but will discourage reasonable...

Notwithstanding FCC rules prohibiting security interests in FCC licvenses, lenders and investors have ways to secure their interest in addition to taking a security interest directly in the non-FCC license assets.  

Cable companies will continue to lose subscribers to AT&T and Verizon. They will have to share more of their programming with their competitors on nondiscriminatory terms and the FCC will scrutinize their deals much more closely than it has in the past. Comcast will be barred from acquiring any...

Implications are that Verizon is making progress in freeing up the MDU market which in New York according to Clinton accounts for 20 million people.  This means as I previously stated Verizon will target Cable's premium customers.  The Clinton letter of support is good news for Verizon and...

This article is important because the implications are beyond the privatization of Cablevision. FiOS may have a more immediate impact on the sale price of Cablevision, but the other cable companies are  at risk of seeing their most lucrative subscriber base shrink. That base consist of urban ...

Verizon, AT&T and RCN are behind a push at the FCC to end exclusive contracts in apartment buildings which both cable companies and landlord's have found to be quite lucrative.

Most of the major newspapers reported last week that the Federal Communications Commission would vote on December 18 to eliminate rules which bar media companies from owning radio, TV and newspapers in the same market, commonly referred to as the cross ownership ban. Lifting the ban, could make it more...

This article explores the FCC's new and rigorous implementation of its rules against indecent material on broadcast stations, which began in late 2004. The piece first examines the history of FCC regulation of broadcast indecency. It then explains the background behind the Commission's current "crackdown"...

This article examines the history of compulsory licensing under the copyright laws and how a compulsory license might apply to peer to peer sharing of video, voice, and data files. It concludes that the procedures in most cases have been so difficult as to be counter-prductive, by generating excessive...