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After Settling for $1.25 Million, Does Verizon Still Charge for Tethering?
Remember the debate about “network neutrality”: the principle that an Internet service provider should not discriminate among Internet sites or technologies? Verizon Wireless remembers; it recently...
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FCC Approves Verizon Acquisition of Cable AWS Holdings
In recent years the FCC could justly be accused of never having met a merger it didn’t like. While regularly grousing, huffing, and puffing about consolidation in the wireless industry, the FCC has...
View ArticleThe NSA-Verizon Phone Record Flap: Take a Deep Breath
There may be a lot less to the NSA “scandal” than meets the eye. In an article for Foreign Policy, I explain why I am quite confident that the program underlying the FISA court order is lawful… [T]his...
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Did Verizon Short Its Customers – And the FCC – $250 Million (or More)?
D. C. communications lawyers Smithwick & Belendiuk ask FCC Inspector General to take another look at 2010 consent decree that may not have been all it was cracked up to be. In recent years the...
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Net Neutrality 2013: The D.C. Circuit Hears the Arguments
It’s been almost two years since net neutrality was the Big Issue here – and now it’s back! On September 9 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in...
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Typicality, Adequacy, and the Motion to Deny – Labou V. Cellco Partnership
In Labou v. Cellco Partnership, No. 2:13-cv-00844-MCE-EFB, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26974 (E.D. Cal. Mar. 3, 2014), the named plaintiff sued cell phone company Verizon. She alleged that Verizon had used...
View ArticleFTC Closes Investigation After Verizon Fixes Encryption Problems with FiOS...
Earlier this week, the FTC notified Verizon by letter that it has closed its investigation into whether Verizon violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to secure certain routers supplied to the...
View ArticleVerizon Settles FCC Privacy Investigation Over Use of “Supercookies”
The FCC announced last week that it reached a settlement with Verizon Wireless (“Verizon”) over its use of “supercookies.” More specifically, the FCC alleged that Verizon inserted unique identifiers...
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