Christopher Bjornson

Chris Bjornson represents companies who provide satellite, internet, wireless telecommunications, and video programming services before the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), and other foreign and domestic government agencies.

Chris has extensive experience with major telecommunications transactions, complex licensing matters, rulemakings, spectrum auctions, and compliance matters.

His transaction-related experience includes coordinating FCC approvals for multibillion-dollar transactions, leading diligence and compliance efforts that have removed impediments to closing transactions, gaining expedited approvals for license transfers, and opposing major transactions. He was a key member of the teams that helped defeat the Sinclair-Tribune and Comcast-Time Warner Cable mergers, as well as the efforts to attach conditions to the Comcast-NBCU and Sprint-T-Mobile transactions.

Chris' regulatory, licensing and compliance experience spans a wide variety of communications law subject matters, representing clients before the FCC with complex satellite, wireless, and experimental licensing applications; universal service filings, compliance, and appeals; and video programming issues. He has been active in rulemakings before the FCC's Media, International, Wireless, and Wireline Bureaus. He has been on the cutting edge of FCC licensing matters, helping a client obtain the first space station license under the FCC's first-come, first served procedures as well as the first earth station onboard vessel authorization. On behalf of the Federal Communications Bar Association, helped the FCC's Office of General Counsel revise the FCC's ex parte rules. As part of the US delegation to WRC-15, he helped secure adoption of a future agenda item.