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Welcome to Telecom Law Monitor, your guide to enforcement-related news, events and trends within the telecommunications field. Be sure to bookmark Telecom Law Monitor and check here regularly for updates. From the FCC to the FTC, to State PUCs and AGs, to private litigation, we cover USF enforcement, truth-in-billing rules, Do-Not-Call developments, CPNI actions, access charge litigation, prepaid card enforcement actions and other related developments. Visit our Resource Center that provides two-click access to enforcement websites and relevant statutes and rules.

Kelley Drye Telecommunications partners Danny Adams and Steve Augustino contribute to the Telecom Law Monitor.

Danny E. Adams

Danny Adams is a partner with the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and works out of the Washington, D.C. office. Danny was a founding member of the Telecommunications practice and has served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as the managing partner of two Kelley Drye offices.

Danny has more than 30 years of experience in the telecom industry, serving in his first years after law school in various positions as an attorney for the FCC, including special assistant to the chief of the Common Carrier (now Wireline Competition) Bureau. He has since been in private practice in Washington, D.C., exclusively representing telecom companies of all kinds.

Danny represents Internet service providers, information service providers, prepaid calling card companies, long distance companies, broadband companies, competitive local service providers, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) and wireless carriers in both federal and state regulatory matters, as well as in contract negotiations and related matters. For clients with no in-house attorneys, he often provides general legal counseling services. In that capacity, he has worked on mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiations, corporate restructuring and various litigation matters.

Danny also assists clients in telecom litigation, including access charge disputes, defense of class action lawsuits and enforcement actions by the FTC, FCC, state Public Utility Commissions and state Attorneys General.

Steven A. Augustino

Steve Augustino is with Kelley Drye's Washington, DC office and focuses his practice on telecommunications and video gaming matters.

Steve represents all types of telecommunications service providers, including competitive local carriers, VoIP providers and prepaid calling card providers. His work for these clients includes negotiating interconnection agreements, representing carriers in interconnection arbitration proceedings and advising on rulemaking proceedings. Steve has experience defending clients in FCC enforcement actions, including Universal Service Fund (USF) compliance investigations and Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) reporting audits. He has negotiated a dozen settlements with the FCC over customer proprietary network information (CPNI), payphone compensation, fax marketing, slamming, “fat finger dialing” and other carrier marketing practices. Steve has led numerous national coalitions in pursuing public policy decisions favorable to competitive providers’ business plans.

With over 15 years of experience representing innovative content and service providers, Steve added a gaming concentration to his practice in 2006, specifically geared towards addressing mobile and broadband access issues affecting video game developers and publishers. His experience in the gaming industry helps online and mobile gaming companies meet the business and legal challenges brought on by the intersection of gaming and communications policy in the United States.