The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected FCC tribal Lifeline support limits and procedures Friday. The 2017 order was vacated and remanded for a new rulemaking in a potential win for wireless resellers like TracFone (see 1902010017). It's a clean win for the order's opponents and the biggest loss for Chairman Ajit Pai so far in court, lawyers said Friday. Others said the FCC likely won’t try a do-over on the order or pursue removal non-facilities-based providers in general from the program.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected FCC tribal Lifeline support limits and procedures Friday. The 2017 order was vacated and remanded for a new rulemaking in a potential win for wireless resellers like TracFone (see 1902010017). It's a clean win for the order's opponents and the biggest loss for Chairman Ajit Pai so far in court, lawyers said Friday. Others said the FCC likely won’t try a do-over on the order or pursue removal non-facilities-based providers in general from the program.
Silicon Labs shares closed down 14 percent to $76.85 Wednesday after revenue came up $5 million short of low-end Q4 revenue guidance. Citing “macro uncertainty and volatility,” the company scaled back its Q1 guidance to $183 million-$193 million, said Chief Financial Officer John Hollister on a call. IoT, infrastructure, broadcast and access are projected to be lower.
Silicon Labs shares closed down 14 percent to $76.85 Wednesday after revenue came up $5 million short of low-end Q4 revenue guidance. Citing “macro uncertainty and volatility,” the company scaled back its Q1 guidance to $183 million-$193 million, said Chief Financial Officer John Hollister on a call. IoT, infrastructure, broadcast and access are projected to be lower.
The DOJ Antitrust Division is “working as fast as we can” on reviewing T-Mobile's proposed buy of Sprint, which will “end when it ends,” division head Makan Delrahim said Tuesday during the State of the Net conference. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., Free Press and other groups opposed to T-Mobile/Sprint, meanwhile, briefed congressional aides. The House Communications Subcommittee and House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee set a Feb. 13 hearing (see 1901280051).
The DOJ Antitrust Division is “working as fast as we can” on reviewing T-Mobile's proposed buy of Sprint, which will “end when it ends,” division head Makan Delrahim said Tuesday during the State of the Net conference. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., Free Press and other groups opposed to T-Mobile/Sprint, meanwhile, briefed congressional aides. The House Communications Subcommittee and House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee set a Feb. 13 hearing (see 1901280051).
The DOJ Antitrust Division is “working as fast as we can” on reviewing T-Mobile's proposed buy of Sprint, which will “end when it ends,” division head Makan Delrahim said Tuesday during the State of the Net conference. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., Free Press and other groups opposed to T-Mobile/Sprint, meanwhile, briefed congressional aides. The House Communications Subcommittee and House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee set a Feb. 13 hearing (see 1901280051).
Three coordinators of state and local 911 systems said they didn't get warning or immediate direct information from CenturyLink as a network outage last month disrupted such systems nationwide. Officials in Washington state, Colorado and Wyoming's state capital told us they relied on their own information, news reports and Twitter in the early stages as they decided how to respond to problems including static, loss of automatic location data and, in Washington state, hours-long 911 outages.
The FCC asked the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to pause the briefing schedule on the 2014 quadrennial review order. With the shutdown to end soon, it wasn’t clear Friday how the court will respond. President Donald Trump reached a deal on a continuing resolution to reopen shuttered parts of the government through Feb. 15, which Congress was expected to have approved as soon as Friday night (see 1901240016). “Out of an abundance of caution, the Commission respectfully requests that the Court stay the briefing schedule until appropriations have been restored by Congress to the FCC" and DOJ, said an unopposed motion Thursday (in Pacer). The FCC’s respondent’s brief is due Feb. 14. The agency had asked that the schedule be resumed when federal funding does, and the 3rd Circuit then grant extension. Now, it's not clear if the court will grant the stay or extension, said Georgetown Law Institute for Public Representation Senior Counselor Andrew Schwartzman. If extension is granted, it would likely cause the other briefing dates in the case to be pushed back, Schwartzman told us.
Media deals making their way through federal court -- AT&T/Time Warner at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Disney/Fox at U.S. District Court in Manhattan -- shouldn't face a delay in judicial action due to the partial federal shutdown, antitrust and law experts told us. The month-long shutdown also isn’t seen having much effect on broadcast deals, analysts and attorneys told us.