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1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Howard Buskirk |Monty Tayloe

While numerous law firms have struck a deal with the Trump administration, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale and Perkins Coie are fighting back. None of the firms that signed agreements, which pledged to provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free work on behalf of the administration, are headquartered in Washington, D.C.Jenner is the only one of the firms opposing the orders that does substantial work representing clients at the FCC.

1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Howard Buskirk

Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today! Hatt said D2D service is possible because the growing number of low earth orbit satellites is making connections cheaper. “With a lower cost structure,” the technology “brings … connectivity right to the handset,” he said.

1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Howard Buskirk

“There’s a lot of optimism, probably a bit of overoptimism” about APIs. They're "one piece of a much bigger puzzle that the industry needs to execute if we want to have significant incremental growth,” Lenahan said. "APIs alone are not sufficient. New security services alone are not sufficient.” He added, “There are big efficiencies” to be had for the growing number of sensors attached to networks and for tracking goods being shipped using wireless networks.

1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Howard Buskirk

“Adequate spectrum access and enabling use case allowances are essential to the success of UAS [uncrewed aircraft systems] and AAM and the future of aviation more broadly,” AUVSI said. The emerging drone and AAM industry "has already begun to demonstrate the value that it brings to the public,” the filing said.

1 week ago | communicationsdaily.com | Monty Tayloe

“I can't tell you how it would fare under a particular standard until you tell me what the supposedly invidious discrimination is. And I just don't see a lot of there there,” said Free Press General Counsel Matt Wood. “I think it would be very hard to win that case for the government,” even assuming targeted companies were violating discrimination laws internally, said James Copeland, director of legal policy for the Manhattan Institute.