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28 December 2010
Advisory: FCC Adopts Network Neutrality Rules
On December 23, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission released a Report and Order adopting "network neutrality" or "open Internet" rules applicable to broadband Internet access service providers.

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27 December 2010
Privacy Update: FTC and Commerce Reports Propose Revised Privacy Guidelines
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Commerce released long-expected reports on privacy in December. Both reports propose new, significant frameworks for privacy protection, the FTC emphasizing consumer data and Commerce emphasizing commercial data concerns.

Briefs & Filings

16 December 2010
GCI Mobility Fund Comments

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15 December 2010
W&G Partner Kent Bressie to Speak as a Featured Participant at Pacific Telecommunications Council 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii

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9 December 2010
W&G Represents Tyco Electronics Ltd. to Obtain Timely Clearance from the CFIUS for the Acquisition of ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
Wiltshire & Grannis LLP successfully represented Tyco Electronics Ltd., and its subsidiary Tyco Electronics Minnesota, Inc., before the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States with respect to their acquisition of ADC Telecommunications, Inc.

Speech or Presentation

01 December 2010
The World’s Regulatory View—A WRC-12 Preview

Briefs & Filings

22 November 2010
Microsoft Corp. Comments on Advanced Communication Provisions of the Twenty-First Century

Speech or Presentation

05 November 2010
CBS Radio Interview with Tim Simeone re WG's Supreme Court Amicus Brief for Video Game Developers

Briefs & Filings

22 October 2010
W&G Seeks FCC Approval for Acquisition of eLandia’s American Samoa Mobile and Undersea Cable Businesses by Spanish Defense and Telecoms Group Amper, S.A.

Briefs & Filings

22 October 2010
W&G Seeks FCC Foreign Ownership Declaratory Ruling for eLandia

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15 October 2010
Advisory: CableCARD Order
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday unanimously voted to issue an Order concerning its CableCARD rules (the “CableCARD Order”). This Order is part of the Commission’s ongoing effort to implement Section 304 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was intended to promote competition in the market for video programming navigation devices (such as cable set-top boxes).

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14 October 2010
Advisory: FCC Proposes Rule on Wireless “Bill Shock”
The FCC has proposed new rules requiring mobile carriers to provide usage alerts and other information assisting consumers in avoiding unexpected charges on their wireless bills (“bill shock”). An April-May 2010 FCC survey indicated that one in six mobile users have experienced an unexpected increase in their monthly mobile bill and that many were not alerted to the increased charges by their carrier before the charges were incurred.

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08 October 2010
U.S. News Ranks Wiltshire & Grannis Among 2010 Best Law Firms
U.S. News Media Group, in conjunction with Best Lawyers®, has ranked Wiltshire & Grannis LLP as one of the nation’s Best Law Firms in their inaugural 2010 “Best Law Firms” rankings. The first-tier rankings are published in the October issue of U.S. News & World Report and online at www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms.

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30 September 2010
Advisory: Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010
The House of Representatives passed the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act on September 28, 2010, clearing the way for President Obama’s signature.

Briefs & Filings

23 September 2010
GCI Rural Health Care NPRM Reply Comments

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23 September 2010
Victory at FCC on “White Spaces” for Wiltshire & Grannis Technology Clients
The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously today to finalize rules enabling unlicensed wireless broadband devices to operate in unused portions of the television broadcast bands (the "white spaces"), creating opportunities for innovative wireless broadband applications that are not possible using existing Wi-Fi spectrum.

Briefs & Filings

17 September 2010
Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Video Game Case

Briefs & Filings

14 September 2010
W&G Seeks FCC Approval for Cook Inlet Undersea Cable Link of United Utilities’ TERRA-SW Project

Briefs & Filings

08 September 2010
GCI Rural Health Care NPRM Comments

Briefs & Filings

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

Briefs & Filings

26 February 2010
Supreme Court Amicus Brief on behalf of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association

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.

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