A nondominant provider of interexchange (IXC) telecommunications services, which provides detariffed interstate, domestic, interexchange services, must file by Wednesday, May 1, 2024 a certification stating its compliance with the Commission’s geographic rate averaging and rate integration obligations, pursuant to Section 254(g) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended1, and pursuant to §64.1900 of the […]

Effective January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”) mandates that millions of both newly formed and existing business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and any other entity created through the filing of a document with a Secretary of State or similar office, submit certain information about the entity and its […]

On July 21, 2023, the FCC released a Report and Order1 that adopted rules requiring service providers that have a role in the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (“Lifeline”) – including cable, satellite, wireless, wireline, interconnected VoIP providers, and those that provide capabilities to Lifeline – to report outages that potentially affect the 988 Lifeline […]

Providers of advanced communications services must file their Supply Chain Annual Reporting requirements by March 31, 2023. Specifically, any Provider that reported and certified in 2022 that it had purchased, rented, leased, or otherwise obtained any covered communications equipment or services on the Covered List must submit an annual report on or before March 31, […]

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) has released a Public Notice announcing the application filing window for the Secure and Trusted Communications Network’s Reimbursement Program (“Reimbursement Program”). The filing window will open Friday, October 29, 2021 at 12:00 AM ET and close on Friday, January 14, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET. The Commission established […]

Herman & Whiteaker, LLC (“H&W”) is pleased to announce the promotion of Clare Liedquist Andonov as a principal with the firm. Clare’s practice at H&W focuses on wireless and wireline broadband matters, auctions, communications towers compliance and FCC and Capitol Hill advocacy. Prior to joining H&W, Clare represented a nationwide carrier in negotiating real estate […]