For this month’s topic, I found the Communications Law research guide from the Georgetown Law Library to be an excellent resource. It is available online at http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/communications.cfm.  Here are several free websites from the guide I found particularly useful.

The Federal Communications Commission has a number of excellent websites:

• FCC Daily Digest provides a brief summary of Commission orders, news releases, speeches, public notices.  http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Digest/dd2007.html

• Headlines offers current status and links to the latest and highest profile items at the Commission. http://www.fcc.gov/headlines.html

• The Office of Legislative Affairs from the FCC has a page of compiled telecommunications statutes.  http://www.fcc.gov/ola/#telecom  The page also includes links to FCC search pages for wireless, public access (AM, FM, TV, etc.) and broadband licenses.

• EDOCS lets you search a database of Daily Digest entries for FCC documents posted to the FCC web site since March 1996. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/SilverStream/Pages/edocs.html

Check out this current awareness blog written by a Seattle Attorney:

• Telecom Law Blog is published by the Telecom lawyers group at Davis Wright Tremaine. http://www.telecomlawblog.com/

A really good glossary can be found here:

• ATIS Telecom Glossary contains thousands of definitions for common, and not-so-common, telecom terms, abbreviations and acronyms.   http://www.atis.org/tg2k

 A good government agency site:

• National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is an agency of the US Department of Commerce charged with advising the president on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues. http://www.ntia.doc.gov

A few good non-profit websites:

• Telecommunications Industry Association is non-profit trade association serving the U.S. communications and information technology industry. http://www.tiaonline.org

• Telecommunications Research & Action Center (TRAC) advocates for the interests of residential telecommunications customers. http://www.trac.org

• Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) is a non-profit organization which hosts an annual forum for scholars engaged in research on telecommunications and information issues, and for public- and private-sector decision makers engaged in telecommunications and information policy. http://www.tprc.org