The Regulatory Mix, TMI’s daily blog of regulatory activities, is a snapshot of PUC, FCC, legislative, and occasionally court issues that our regulatory monitoring team uncovers each day. Depending on their significance, some items may be the subject of a TMI Regulatory Bulletin.
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Open Meeting
The FCC announced the agenda for its July 16, 2015, Open Meeting, which includes:
The FCC will also consider an Enforcement Bureau item for which no identifying information was released and a Consent Agenda consisting of nine Media Bureau items.
Special Access Data Collection
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has released a list of the parities executing Acknowledgements of Confidentiality (Acknowledgements) in connection with their intent to seek access to data and information filed in response to the FCC’s Special Access Data Request. Companies that submitted confidential or highly confidential information in response to the collection have until July 17, 2015, to object to disclosure of their data and information to the requesting parties listed in the Attachment. The Bureau said it would separately announce the filing of any executed Acknowledgements received after the date of the Public Notice and would give data respondents an opportunity to object to the disclosure of their information to the additional entities. The Bureau will maintain a list of all parties that have sought access, and been granted access, to confidential and highly confidential information, on the following webpage: http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/acknowledgement-confidential-special-access-data-collection.
IP Transition
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced through a blog posting and Fact Sheet that he will be circulating two items in connection with the FCC’s proceeding on the IP transition. The items will be on the FCC’s August 6, 2015, Agenda. See our blog FCC-Moves-Forward-On-IP-Transition-Rules.