Miller & Van Eaton, P.L.L.C. in Washington, DC, US (United States)

Miller & Van Eaton is active in legislative, regulatory, and judicial matters. The firm’s record of results for its clients makes it a dominant and influential communications law firm. 

The discussion below focuses on personal wireless service facilities. However, the reader should be aware that the Commission has extended the so-called OTARD rule, 47 C.F.R.§1.4000, to include the small antennas that can be used to transmit and receive fixed wireless telephone messages. (66 Fed. 

We note that before the comment period closed on April 15, 1996, the Commission had received comments from approximately 84 firms and associations connected with the real estate industry, all fundamentally supporting the positions taken by the joint commenters. 

Federal telecommunications law affects local zoning authority in at least four different ways; there are different provisions of law and/or regulations affecting the control of: 

See 47 USC § 332(c)(7) and § 704(a) of the 1996 Act. On the other hand, local authority over video receive antennas less than one meter in size, such as DBS dishes and traditional TV mast antennas - "over-the-air reception devices" (OTARD) - is largely preempted by federal law.