Robert E. Stup, Jr.

Robb assists service providers with entering new markets and obtaining the necessary international, federal and state operating authority. He provides regulatory compliance advice for ongoing operations and works closely with carrier clients to develop regulatory compliance programs, make required regulatory filings, address regulatory issues that arise on a daily basis and resolve customer and wholesale disputes.

He has broad experience negotiating, drafting and reviewing communications-related contracts, including purchase agreements, customer agreements, joint build agreements, carrier agreements, right-of-way and access agreements, and operating agreements.

Robb helps businesses negotiate and close mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications industry and regularly counsels clients on business strategies and regulatory compliance, developments and policy. Robb has represented numerous clients by assisting them with due diligence reviews of licenses and regulatory approvals held by the target company, as well as reviews of the agreements necessary for the ongoing provision of services.

Robb has extensive experience advising clients on federal, state and local taxes and regulatory fees, including the federal universal service program. He advises clients with respect to both their obligation to pay surcharges into the program as well as their rights to receiving support funding from the program. Robb has worked with numerous domestic and international providers to review the application of universal service to their services to ensure compliance, including reviewing strategies to minimize the assessment of surcharges.

Robb is a leading member of the firm’s C-band relocation payment clearinghouse team, which is administering the reconfiguration of the C-band to make available 300 MHz of spectrum for flexible use of wireless services, including 5G. He served in a similar role with the firm’s 800 MHz Transition Administration team, which has administered the reconfiguration of more than 2,000 wireless networks to improve public safety communications and to minimize increasing levels of interference caused by having both commercial wireless cellular systems and critical public safety communications systems operating in the same band. Leveraging his prior experience as a Certified Public Accountant (qualified in 1991) and auditor, Robb has worked closely with the clients to resolve complicated financial aspects of the programs, including cost review, audit, financial statement and program financial security issues.