The FCC has ruled that the city of Meade, KS, cannot apply restrictions on the placement and installation of satellite television dishes. The ruling sets a precedent in that the FCC has assumed more control over local government planning decisions and land use regulations. Continuing an emerging pattern...
TCI Cablevision Inc has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission in an effort to bypass the telecommunications ordinance of Troy, MI, which calls for telecommunications companies to have a local franchise. The city is fighting the petition, and is receiving assistance from the NLC. NLC is lending a hand in...
WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission last week for the first time voided a city ordinance that the agency said illegally interfered with ownership of a satellite dish. Acting in the case of Meade, Kan., a rural community on the Oklah WASHINGTON -...
New York City Adopts Ordinance Governing PCS NEW YORK -- New York City has become the second local government to establish a franchise procedure for companies experimenting with personal communications services PCS. Both the New York authorizing resolution...
New PCN Technology To Spark Old Debates The cable industry's move toward trials of personal communications networks will renew explosive regulatory and competitive battles over local control and cable access to telephone poles, communications experts say. And...
WASHINGTON - The cable industry last week used a rare Federal Communications Commission open forum to assert that excessive local regulation is preventing the spread of phone competition. Local governments, meanwhile, countered by saying that thei WASHINGTON - The cable industry last week...
Tired of wrangling over annual rate increases, officials in Arlington, Texas, will try to compel Tele-Communications Inc. to submit to the city's latest rate order. By amending its local-cable ordinance, the City Council made it a misdemeanor Tired...
Meade, Kan., a small rural community of 1,700 residents on the Oklahoma border, will be the test site for the government's new rules protecting satellite-dish owners. The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association and a PrimeStar Partn Meade, Kan., a small rural community...
One of the issues that was discussed in the Federal Communications Commission FCC was regarding allocations concerning channels in the 700MHz band and the modification that could be effected to enable the broadband communications to be occupied. It adopted Notice of Proposed Rule Making NPRM to...
The Federal Communications Commission's FCC Wireless Bureau recently concluded that federal law preempted parts of an Anne Arundel County, Md., zoning ordinance that involved radio frequency interference. The county enacted the local ordinance after exhaustive tests showed that commercial towers were responsible for 61 "dead ...
TV MEETS THE WEB-C2003 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Lord Currie of Marylebone, the imposingly-named appointed chairman to the new UK communications super-regulator, Ofcom, is to meet his US counterpart, Michael Powell of the Federal Communications Commission FCC, in Washington later...
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled the Federal Communications Act and associated regulations preempted a city zoning ordinance limiting the height of radio broadcast towers to 42 feet (Koor Communication; Inc. v. City of Lebanon, No. 2001-440, Dec. 12, 2002). Koor Communication...
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 October 2002-CAMBRIDGE POSITIONING SYSTEMS: E-OTD industry "already meeting" Hatfield e911 report recommendations on collaboration and standards, says CPS; Major vendor group co-operates on systems engineering, industry best practice and standardization C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10182002 ...
A town planning board's interpretation of its zoning ordinances effectively prohibited personal wireless services in violation of the Telecommunications Act TCA the U.S. District Court for Maine has ruled (Sprint Spectrum, L.P. v. Town of Ogunquit, 175 F. Supp. 2d 77). Ogunquit...
The Federal Communications Commission issued an order that waives milestone requirements on the launch of Intelsat 903 satellite due to the delay in its delivery by Space Systems/Loral [LOR], the spacecraft's manufacturer. The FCC's order modified the launch milestone deadline and the corresponding in-service date...
RON MALLARD As the end of his term as president of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors approaches on Sept. 9, Ron Mallard has seen three local jurisdictions lose major open-access cases against cable operators. In the latest, the...
In a victory for federalism in communications policy, a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., last week freed AT&T Corp. from a requirement to open its cable pipes to competing Internet service providers ISPs. The court decided that Henrico's open-access action was "pre-empted and superceded" by federal law....
Late last month, the National League of Cities, as well as more than 50 cities, counties and interested parties joined forces by filing comments to the Federal Communications Commission FCC, voicing concern over the commission's possible preemption of cities' rights-of-way management authority. The petition came in...
Cable service or telecom service? That's big question that 4th U.S. Appeals Court, Richmond, Va., must decide as it grapples with question whether cable operators can be forced to provide carriage to multiple ISPs. At oral argument late last month on Henrico County, Va., ordinance mandating open access,...
In vote apparently influenced by FCC Chmn. Kennard, Miami- Dade County Commissioners rejected cable open access ordinance by 10-2 vote Oct. 19. County had been seen leaning toward passage when it first took up issue in March as part of AT&T-TCI franchise transfer process, but Consumer Protection Dir. Mario Goderich...
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