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Rini Coran, PC attorneys Robert Rini, Steve Coran and Jonathan Allen will be in Las Vegas next week. They will be bringing ISPs up to date about efforts to preserve unlicensed spectrum and other issues. 

WISPAPALOOZA 2011 will be held by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association (WISPA) from October 10-14, 2011. Robert will moderate a panel on mergers and acquisitions, Steve will discuss TV white spaces, spectrum self-management and legislative issues. Jonathan will discuss the “data driven” FCC and FCC enforcement.

FISPA's Service Provider Forum will be held by the Federation of Internet Solutions Providers of the Americas (FISPA) from October 12-14, 2011.  At this event, Steve will discuss FCC complaint procedures and “regulatory creep.” Jonathan will discuss legal and regulatory issues involving IPTV, VoIP and CLEC services.

Robert Rini was quoted in the July 18 edition of Communications Daily about the FCC’s Media Ownership Review: 

"Several industry officials said they fear that politics plays a role in this and all other quadrennial reviews, as the potential for deregulation attracts widespread public and legislative scrutiny. 'Processes get held hostage by political objectives,' said broadcast lawyer Robert Rini of Rini Coran. 'So I remain confident that if the process is allowed to move forward by the way that is allowed by the law' under the Telecom Act, the outcome will be a good one, he added. For the current review, 'there’s not enough transparency, despite all the rhetoric in favor of transparency, which really creates its own irony,' Rini said. 'Why doesn’t the FCC publish notes of its internal meetings? Why don’t we see drafts of rules? There are a lot of things the FCC could do to open up the process to more public comment.'" 

The Commission’s 2010 Quadrennial Regulatory Review of its ownership rules is underway.

Steve Coran will be speaking at the Super WiFi Summit in Austin, Texas September 13-15, 2011. The Super WiFi Summit is co-located with ITEXPO West at the Austin Convention Center. Steve will be speaking about TV white spaces.

Robert Rini was quoted in Communications Daily on April 28, 2011 about the FCC's over-use of auctions to allocate spectrum, in the context of the current radio station auction. Rini calls for the FCC to "establish a secondary market" because it would be more efficient in allocating spectrum to meet current consumer demand. "There are so may stray cats and dogs that are left over from other auctions."

Steve Coran served as a panelist at the Regulatory 2.0 Conference in Washington, DC on April 12, 2011. At "The ICC FUSF NPRM: A New Vision for the Future of Communications," Steve discussed the future of telephony regulation and universal service reform. Archived video of the event is available here (registration required).

Jon Allen attended the Spring 2011 FISPA/WISPA Service Provider Summit, which was held in Orlando, Florida from March 23-25, 2011.  He spoke about Federal Communications Commission proposals for reforms to the universal service fund (USF) and regulatory issues involving providers of interconnected VoIP services.

Rini Coran, PC is sponsoring the FISPA/WISPA Service Provider Summit in Orlando from March 23-25, 2011. Robert Rini, Steve Coran and Jon Allen to speak about wireless policies.