Telecommunications
Keller and Heckman’s Telecommunications practice works with scores of national, regional, state, and local authorities, utilities, associations, agencies, private companies, and other entities in nearly every state on a wide range of communications and/or communications infrastructure issues.
We advise and represent clients in a wide range of proceedings, including Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other federal and state rulemakings, legislation and litigation, federal and state regulatory compliance and enforcement actions, radiofrequency spectrum acquisitions, advanced broadband projects and partnerships, and federal and state funding opportunities. We regularly develop, negotiate, implement, and defend agreements of many kinds.
Our unparalleled experience enables us to assist clients with regulatory requirements and matters pertaining to:
- Private Wireless Systems, Spectrum, and Regulation
- Utility Pole Attachments and Joint Use
- Community Broadband Initiatives
- Broadband Partnerships
- Regulation of Broadband and Telecommunications Providers
- Infrastructure Deployment and Access
- Licensing and Technology Transactions
- Communications Services for Businesses and MTEs
- FCC Enforcement
- Policymaking
Areas of Focus
Keller and Heckman represents hundreds of critical infrastructure company clients, including utilities, railroads, energy companies, and public safety entities, in securing FCC radiofrequency authorizations and rule waivers, and contract authority, to operate essential internal wireless communications systems.
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Keller and Heckman advocates vigorously for a large number of investor-owned utility, electric cooperative, and municipal utility pole owners regarding the attachment of wireline and wireless communications facilities to electric distribution poles, conduits, and rights-of-way.
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Keller and Heckman has helped to implement scores of site-specific community broadband initiatives by municipalities and electric cooperatives, including many of the most prominent projects in America. Our practice has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the digital divide, representing new entrants, municipal entities, nontraditional providers, infrastructure owners, and public-private partnerships as they work to deploy essential broadband infrastructure.
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Keller and Heckman has extensive experience successfully developing and negotiating broadband partnerships, including public-public, public-private, and private-private partnerships at the state, regional, and local levels.
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Keller and Heckman uses decades of experience to counsel a variety of broadband and telecommunications service providers, underwriters, investors, and others on federal and state broadband and telecommunications regulatory compliance matters.
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Keller and Heckman commonly drafts and negotiates tower cell site leases, dark fiber agreements (IRUs, leases and fiber swaps), lit fiber agreements, interconnection agreements, and collocation agreements.
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Keller and Heckman represents niche technology services providers, network operators, developers, and a variety of other clients with respect to developing and negotiating product terms and conditions, tailoring technology and intellectual property licensing transactions, and creating software-as-a-service solutions.
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Keller and Heckman represents large businesses and other enterprise customers, along with developers, owners, or service providers at Multiple Tenant Environments, in securing or providing the telecommunications, broadband, and other important communications services they need.
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Keller and Heckman assists a variety of clients, including critical infrastructure companies, with strategies to ensure ongoing compliance with FCC rules and with all aspects of FCC enforcement proceedings.
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Keller and Heckman represents and counsels a variety of clients, including critical infrastructure companies, in numerous state and federal rulemaking, regulatory, and legislative proceedings involving communications services and infrastructure policies and procedures.
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