Comment Sought on Network Resiliency and 911 Emergency Access by July 16
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) has issued a Public Notice seeking comment on the effectiveness of the Wireless Network Resiliency...
FAA Streamlines its Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) System
The FAA, in coordination with the FCC, has developed plans to streamline its processes related to Notice to Airmen (NOTAMs), which identify towers with...
FCC Adopts 5G Rural Fund FNPRM
The FCC has adopted a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on a limited set of issues pertaining to the 5G...
Study Areas with Potential 100% Overlap May Lose High-Cost Support
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has identified 13 study areas that it has determined preliminarily to be subject to the “100 percent overlap rule”...
RDOF Phase I Winners Announced
The FCC has formally announced the close of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase I Auction (Auction 904), which ended just...
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Constitutionality of the FCC’s Universal Service Framework
The United States Supreme Court has declined to review the constitutionality of the FCC’s universal service support mechanism. The nonprofit group, Consumers’...
NTIA Seeks Comment on Mobile App Ecosystem
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is seeking comments to develop a report on competition in the mobile application ecosystem. NTIA...
Wi-Fi Innovation Act Introduced in House and Senate
Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH), with colleagues Darrell Issa (R-CA), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Doris Matsui (D-CA), has introduced the Wi-Fi Innovation Act (H.R. 5125)...
FCC Denies Motion for Stay of Small Cell Order
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) has issued an Order denying a Motion for Stay pending judicial review of the FCC’s September 2018 Declaratory Ruling...
SVB Collapse Prompts LOC Waiver Relief for RDOF Awardee
East Central Vermont Telecommunications District (ECFiber) has been granted a six-month waiver of the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) rules by...
