Represent NCTA in its efforts to ensure that local government entry requirements and fees do not hamper the deployment of broadband and other advanced services.
Represented NCTA before the Sixth Circuit in the appeal of the FCC’s “Section 621 Order,” addressing the extent of local authority over non-cable services and ability to impose in-kind obligations in excess of federal limits on fee requirements.
Conduct and advise on negotiations with local governments and franchising authorities for cable operators and telecommunications service providers across the country.
Represented Cox as lead Federal law counsel in connection with Cox’s Federal court challenge to a decision by the City of Tempe, AZ to award Google Fiber a license to use the City’s rights-of-way to provide video service without obtaining a franchise and pursuant to terms and conditions more favorable and less burdensome than the terms and conditions of Cox’s cable franchise.
