Philip J. Macres

Philip Macres is a principal at Klein Law Group, PLLC. He has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Philip counsels companies on increasing profitability, reducing risk, and furthering their corporate objectives through effective and efficient regulatory, litigation, transactional, and business strategies.

Philip represents competitive providers on regulatory policy, compliance, litigation, and dispute resolution matters before the FCC, state public service commissions, and federal courts. He also assists clients in preparing broadband construction funding applications and addressing other obligations under federal and state programs, including the FCC’s RDOF and ACP, NTIA’s BEAD and Middle Mile, USDA’s Reconnect, Community Connect and Telecommunications Infrastructure Loan, and ARPA’s SLFRF and CPF programs. In addition, he represents clients before the U.S. Congress as well as federal and state agencies and offices on broadband deployment and funding opportunities and issues. During the past few years, Philip assisted a client in obtaining more than $83.9 million in broadband funding awards.

Philip advises companies on a wide range of business and legal communications issues, such as federal and state grant programs for broadband deployment, rules and orders to spur broadband deployment, fiber builds, rip and replace program, the TRACED Act, STIR/SHAKEN, caller ID authentication, illegal robocalling and spoofing, call blocking, telecom fraud, 8YY calling, 10 Digit Long Code (10DLC) policies, Kari’s Law and Ray Baum’s Act, Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs), resale, forbearance, business data services/special access, copper loop retirement, interconnection, TDM-to-IP transition, disconnections and discontinuances, pole attachments, collocation, commercial and tariffed arrangements, intercarrier compensation, access charge disputes, universal service, USAC requests and contribution inquiries, net neutrality and restoring Internet freedom, mergers, competition policy, and disability rights (including Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS)). He also counsels on privacy, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), slamming and cramming, Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), and winback/retention marketing issues.

Prior to joining Klein Law Group, Philip was with Bingham McCutchen n/k/a Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (and predecessor Swidler Berlin) for more than 14 years, where he represented competitive providers of wireline and wireless telecommunications and information services. Before working at Bingham, Philip was with Kraskin, Lesse & Cosson, where he counseled wireless providers and small competitive and incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (LECs). Prior to becoming an attorney, Philip worked for more than five years at Sprint’s former incumbent LEC, where he worked in the regulatory and marketing departments.

Philip currently serves as a co-chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association’s (FCBA) Wireline Committee.

Philip received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Stetson University College of Law, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with a major in finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Florida. In addition, he is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Fifth, and Ninth Circuits along with U.S. District Courts for Colorado, the Central District of Illinois, the Middle District of Florida, and the Western District of Michigan.

When he is not working, Philip enjoys traveling, hiking, and running.

Contact Philip at pmacres@kleinlawpllc.com or (202) 289-6956.

Representative Public Moderating and Speaking Events:

Combatting Illegal Robocalling and Spoofing in the U.S., The Status of the Efforts as of February 23, 2023, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 22, 2023)
FCC Update – February 2023, What’s On the Horizon in 2023 that Could Affect Your Bottom Line and Impact Your Customers, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 22, 2023)
Robocalling: Preventing illicit foreign voice calling into the US (virtual), Capacity Europe 2022, London, UK (Oct. 17, 2022)
Regulatory Landscape, 2022 Telecom Fraud Symposium (virtual), SOMOS (June 16, 2022)
Spotlight on Fraud, International Telecoms Week 2022 Conference, National Harbor, MD (May 12, 2022)
Combatting Illegal Robocalling and Spoofing in the U.S., How to Ensure Your Calls are Routed After September 27, 2021 and Beyond, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 22, 2022)
FCC Update – February 2022, Going into 2022 and What’s Coming that Could Affect Your Bottom Line, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 22, 2022)
Combatting Illegal Robocalling and Spoofing in the U.S., How to Ensure Your Calls are Routed After September 27, 2021, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Sep. 2, 2021)
Combatting Illegal Robocalling and Spoofing in the U.S., How to Ensure Your Calls are Routed After September 27, 2021, International Telecoms Week 2021 Conference, National Harbor, MD (Aug. 20, 2021)
Implementation of the TRACED Act in 2020 and What’s Coming in 2021, Panel I, Overview of the FCC’s 2020 Implementation of the TRACED Act and What’s Coming in 2021, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Feb. 23, 2021)
FCC Update – February 2021, It’s a New Day at the FCC and What’s Coming that Could Affect Your Bottom Line, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 22, 2021)
Addressing Illegal Robocalling and Spoofing Under the TRACED Act, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 22, 2021)
TRACED Act 101 and Preliminary Implementation Perspectives, Panel I, The TRACED Act – What Led to Its Enactment, Including a Summary of the 15 Sections and Various Deadlines Under It, FCBA Wireline Committee et al., Washington, DC (Feb. 27, 2020)
FCC Update – February 2020, What’s on the Horizon that Could Affect Your Bottom Line, Metro Connect USA, Miami, FL (Feb. 12, 2020)
FCC Update – January 2020, Keeping Up with the FCC and What’s Coming that Could Affect Your Bottom Line, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Jan. 22, 2020)
Robocalling and the New TRACED Act, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Jan. 22, 2020)
FCC Update – September 2019, Keeping Up with the FCC and What’s Coming that Could Affect Your Bottom Line, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, San Diego, CA (Sep. 9, 2019)
FCC Update – June 2019, What’s Coming that Could Affect Your Bottom Line, International Telecoms Week 2019, Atlanta, GA (June 24, 2019)
FCC Update – February 2019, What’s Coming that Could Affect Your Revenue Streams, Compliance Solutions, Inc. Conference, Orlando, FL (Feb. 21, 2019)
Intercarrier Compensation Reforms on the Horizon, Panel I, Eliminating Access Arbitrage–What’s at Stake and What Should the FCC Do?, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Dec. 18, 2018)
Hot Topics in Telecom, Midwest Association of Competitive Communications sponsored luncheon at NARUC Conference, Scottsdale, AZ (July 15, 2018)
The Call Completion Odyssey: The FCC’s Next Steps in Addressing Rural Call Completion Issues and Implementing the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2017, National Council of State Telecom Association Executives, New Orleans, LA (May 2, 2018)
The FCC’s Business Data Services Order: What Does It Mean and What’s Next?, Panel I, FCC Overview of the BDS Order and Its Implementation, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (May 31, 2017)
IP Interconnection and Peering: Legal and Practical Issues, Panel II, Policy and Legal Roundtable on IP Interconnection and Peering, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Feb. 27, 2016)
Five Years after the Broadband Plan—Where Do Things Stand on USF and Intercarrier Compensation Reform?, Panel I, 2015 Overview of Key Open Issues Associated with the CAF and Intercarrier Compensation, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (May 20, 2015)
The FCC’s Special Access Data Collection, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Nov. 14, 2014)
Rural Broadband: Extending the Reach to Meet Demand, COMPTEL Plus Business Expo, Dallas, TX (Oct. 7, 2014)
Net Neutrality Redux: What Should the FCC Do?, Panel II, Key Industry Viewpoints, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (May 29, 2014)
The FCC’s Rural Broadband Experiments and Expressions of Interest Due March 7, 2014, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Feb. 27, 2014)
A Progress Report on USF Reform, Panel I, An Overview of Key Open Issues Associated with the CAF, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Nov. 14, 2013)
FCC Wireline Competition Bureau Update – A discussion with the Bureau Chief, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Sep. 13, 2013)
Regulating Pole Attachments in a Broadband World: Deployment, Pricing and Safety Issues, Panel II, Safety Issues: Up a Pole Without a Ladder, FCBA Wireline Committee, Washington, DC (Apr. 16, 2008)
Negotiating and Arbitrating Interconnection Agreements from a CLEC Perspective, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (“NTCA”) Legal Seminar, Scottsdale, AZ (Nov. 12, 2007)