Brita Strandberg is a partner with the law firm of Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, where she focuses on representing communications and technology clients before the Federal Communications Commission and federal courts.
Ms. Strandberg represents traditional telecommunications providers in matters of domestic and international regulatory strategy and compliance, and represents providers of a wide array of new technologies and services including VoIP, unified communications, online collaboration, social networking, and eCommerce. Ms. Strandberg provides clients high-level strategic advice and advocacy in rulemakings and litigation, and also provides ongoing compliance advice to companies addressing universal service, 911, law enforcement access, consumer privacy, disability access, telemarketing, and related obligations. She assists innovators and new entrants address the difficult challenges that arise when emerging services do not fit neatly into traditional regulatory boxes.
Some of Ms. Strandberg's notable representations include:
- Successfully challenging state efforts to impose universal service obligations on interconnected VoIP providers.
- Appealing the FCC's VoIP USF Order to the D.C. Circuit.
- Representing a major CLEC in forbearance, USF and tariff proceedings.
- Advising a major interconnected VoIP provider in a wide range of regulatory matters, including universal service, 911, CALEA, and broadband availability.
- Representing an association of VoIP providers in various proceedings including intercarrier compensation and USF reform.
- Counseling traditional providers and new entrants on regulatory obligations and compliance strategy in areas including federal jurisdiction, USF and related fees, CPNI, CALEA, 911, and disability access.
- Advising equipment manufacturers and software providers on the implications of FCC and legislative developments.
- Representing wired and wireless facilities-based network providers in pole attachment rulemakings before the FCC and the NY PSC.
- Assembling a network of advisory counsel in 25+ emerging markets to assist a major equipment provider implement its worldwide regulatory strategy.
- Briefing and arguing the appeal of an FCC decision denying a refund of regulatory fees before the D.C. Circuit.
- Representing a major non-interconnected VoIP provider in FCC rulemaking proceedings and before Congress.
- Coordination of counsel from 40+ jurisdictions in the provision of international telecommunications and regulatory advice.
Ms. Strandberg rounds out her communications and technology practice with her background in complex litigation, civil rights, and administrative law. After law school, Ms. Strandberg clerked for Judge W. Wayne Justice of the Eastern District of Texas and Judge David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Ms. Strandberg graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School, where she was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
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Education
Yale Law School, J.D. Princeton University, A.B., magna cum laude
Clerkships
Hon. David S. Tatel, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hon. William Wayne Justice, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
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