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Briefs & Filings

23 August 2010
GCI-YKHC Request for Review of USAC Rural Health Care Decision

Press Releases & Advisories

20 August 2010
Wiltshire & Grannis Featured in Corporate Counsel Magazine
Corporate Counsel magazine has featured Wiltshire & Grannis in its August 2010 article "The Big Advantage of Going Small."

Briefs & Filings

16 August 2010
Petra Solar Pole Attachment Comments

Briefs & Filings

13 August 2010
T-Mobile Wireline Data Collection Comments

Briefs & Filings

11 August 2010
GCI USF NOI/NPRM Reply Comments

Speech or Presentation

08 August 2010
Rob Carter to Discuss USF Compensation Reform at the 2010 Prepaid Press Expo on August 25

Briefs & Filings

02 August 2010
Vonage Outage Reporting Comments

Speech or Presentation

26 July 2010
Ed Thomas Discusses the FCC's National Public Safety Broadband Proposal on C-SPAN's The Communicators

Speech or Presentation

16 July 2010
Patricia Paoletta speaks on Department of State panel on Managing U.S. International Telecommunications Policy Relations—Perspectives from the Field: An Exchange of Views between the Business Community and Foreign Service

Press Releases & Advisories

14 July 2010
Advisory: Fox Television Stations, Inc., et al. v. FCC (2d Cir. July 13, 2010)
In a significant victory for broadcast networks, media corporations and the news and entertainment industries, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit yesterday struck down, as a violation of the First Amendment, the indecency policy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Speech or Presentation

13 July 2010
Paul Margie to Speak at LSI Spectrum and Wireless Conference on October 19

Briefs & Filings

12 July 2010
Vonage USF NOI & NPRM Comments

Briefs & Filings

12 July 2010
GCI IASD Erate Appeal

Press Releases & Advisories

08 July 2010
Kent Bressie Quoted re Bankruptcy Court Hearings in the U.S. Virgin Islands

Press Releases & Advisories

18 June 2010
Kent Bressie Quoted in St. Croix Source re Acquisition of Vitelco and Innovative Cable by W&G Client CFC

Press Releases & Advisories

13 June 2010
Wiltshire & Grannis Telecom Practice Receives Top-Tier Ranking in Chambers USA 2010
Chambers and Partners, publishers of the popular Chambers guides to the world’s leading lawyers, have again named Wiltshire & Grannis LLP as one of the top five Telecom, Broadcast, and Satellite Regulatory firms in the just-published 2010 edition.

Press Releases & Advisories

03 June 2010
Chad Breckinridge Quoted in Bermuda Royal Gazette re Proposed Telecom Reform

Speech or Presentation

12 May 2010
Eight Myths About Undersea Cables, and Strategies for Dispelling Them to Achieve More Reasonable and Rational Regulation--Master Class at SubOptic 2010

Press Releases & Advisories

12 May 2010
W&G Partner Kent Bressie Teaches Master Class at SubOptic 2010, the Premier Undersea Telecommunications Conference, in Yokohama, Japan
Wiltshire & Grannis LLP partner Kent Bressie has just completed teaching a master class, "Eight Myths About Undersea Cables, and Strategies for Dispelling Them to Achieve More Reasonable and Rational Regulation" at SubOptic 2010—the premier forum for the undersea telecommunications industry—in Yokohama, Japan.

Press Releases & Advisories

06 May 2010
W&G Wins Regulator’s Unanimous Consent for Client CFC to Acquire Principal Telecom and Cable TV Providers in U.S. Virgin Islands
W&G successfully represented National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation in obtaining unanimous approval from the Public Services Commission of the U.S. Virgin Islands for CFC’s acquisition from Stan Springel, as Chapter 11 trustee for the bankruptcy estate of Innovative Communication Corporation, of the Virgin Islands Telephone Corporation and Innovative Cable TV.

Speech or Presentation

01 May 2010
Patricia Paoletta moderates Next-Generation Video Panel at the FCBA’s Annual Seminar on Broadband and Beyond: Making the Vision a Reality

Briefs & Filings

23 April 2010
W&G Represents North American Submarine Cable Association in Challenging Applicability of NOAA's Proposed Sea Turtle Rules to Undersea Telecommunications Networks

Press Releases & Advisories

12 April 2010
W&G Assists OPT in Obtaining Unprecedented FCC Waiver, Paving Way for High-Speed Internet Connectivity in French Polynesia
WG assisted client Office des Postes et télécommunications de Polynésie française (“OPT”)—the incumbent carrier in French Polynesia—in obtaining an unprecedented waiver of the structural separation requirement for international common carriers imposed by the FCC.

Press Releases & Advisories

12 April 2010
W&G Partner Kent Bressie to Teach Master Class at SubOptic 2010, the Premier Undersea Telecommunications Conference, on May 11, 2010, in Yokohama, Japan
Mr. Bressie’s master class seeks to provide undersea cable operators, suppliers, and service providers with the tools for combating ignorance about undersea cables and thereby improving government policies and regulations, reducing infrastructure costs, and expediting deployment and repair timeframes.

Speech or Presentation

19 February 2010
Paul Margie discusses Haiti, Télécoms sans Frontières, and Emergency Telecom on Canadian Public Television’s The Agenda

Press Releases & Advisories

08 January 2010
Wiltshire & Grannis Names Three New Partners
Wiltshire & Grannis LLP announced today that S. Roberts Carter, Steven A. Fredley, and Amy E. Richardson have been elected partners, effective January 1, 2010. Ms. Richardson and Messrs. Carter and Fredley previously were associates at W&G.

Briefs & Filings

30 December 2009
W&G Seeks FCC Approval for Sale of PPC 1 Undersea Cable System

Press Releases & Advisories

30 December 2009
Two W&G Attorneys Recognized in 2009 Legal Elite Readers Poll
Wiltshire & Grannis is pleased to announce that two of its attorneys, Charles T. Kimmett and Jonathan B. Mirsky, have been recognized in the Legal Elite Readers Poll 2009, which surveyed Washington, D.C.-area business executives to identify "go-to attorneys in business law" who are "the kind you'd go to war with."

Press Releases & Advisories

24 December 2009
Three W&G Lawyers Recognized as “Washington’s Top Lawyers” by Washingtonian Magazine
The December 2009 issue of Washingtonian magazine has included three W&G attorneys in its annual list of Washington’s Top Lawyers for 2010. Thomas Connolly was featured in the category of “elite criminal defenders,” while John Nakahata and Christopher Wright were named as top communications lawyers.

Briefs & Filings

15 December 2009
Qwest Corporation v. Anovian, Inc., et al., Order Granting Motion to Dismiss

Speech or Presentation

10 December 2009
Patricia Paoletta moderates PLI panel at 27th Annual Institute on Telecommunications Policy and Regulation, Congressional Staff Panel: Broadband and Other Challenges

Press Releases & Advisories

08 December 2009
W&G Represents CFC in Obtaining Unconditional FCC and British Virgin Islands Government Approvals to Acquire ICC Businesses
W&G successfully represented National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation in obtaining unconditional approval from the FCC and the British Virgin Islands Government for CFC’s acquisition from Stan Springel, as Chapter 11 trustee for the bankruptcy estate of Innovative Communication Corporation, of the principal telecommunications and cable television providers in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the principal cable television provider in the British Virgin Islands.

Briefs & Filings

07 December 2009
Vonage Comments – National Broadband Plan Notice #19

Briefs & Filings

24 November 2009
Amicus Brief for Environmental Amici in GE v. Jackson (DC Circuit Court of Appeals)

Press Releases & Advisories

05 November 2009
Kent Bressie Quoted in St. Thomas Source re W&G Client CFC's Proposed Acquisition of Vitelco and Innovative Cable TV.

Speech or Presentation

04 November 2009
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Oral Argument in Qwest Corporation v. Level 3 Communications LLC

Press Releases & Advisories

31 October 2009
Four W&G Lawyers Named in Washington’s Best Lawyers
Four attorneys from Wiltshire & Grannis LLP have been recognized in the 2010 edition of Washington D.C.’s Best Lawyers. John T. Nakahata, William M. Wiltshire, and Christopher J. Wright were named among D.C.’s best lawyers in Communications Law and Thomas G. Connolly was named one of D.C.’s best White-Collar Criminal Defense lawyers.

Press Releases & Advisories

15 October 2009
Emergency Telecom Mission of W&G Pro Bono Client Télécoms sans Frontières featured on WashingtonPost.com

Press Releases & Advisories

01 October 2009
W&G Successfully Challenges Customs and Border Protection Proposal to Impose Coastal Trading Restrictions on Undersea Telecommunications-Related Activities
Following vigorous advocacy in a compressed timeframe by lawyers from Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has withdrawn its sweeping proposal to impose coastal trading restrictions on a variety of offshore activities, including undersea telecommunications-related activities.

Briefs & Filings

24 September 2009
Vonage Reply Comments Responding to State Request for USF Authority

Briefs & Filings

22 September 2009
Brief for Nextel Defendants in BellSouth v. Florida Public Service Commission (Northern District of Florida)

Briefs & Filings

09 September 2009
Vonage Comments Responding to State Request for USF Authority

Press Releases & Advisories

04 September 2009
OFAC and BIS Issue New Regulations for Cuba Telecommunications Transactions
OFAC: New Rules for Financial Transactions Relating to the Provision of Telecommunications Services and Facilities Between the United States and Cuba

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