Today: FCC February Open Meeting Agenda 

FCC February Open Meeting Agenda

The FCC announced that the following items are tentatively on the agenda for the February 22, 2018, Open Meeting.

• Payphone Compensation: A Report and Order to (1) eliminate all payphone call tracking system audit and associated reporting requirements, (2) permit a company official, including but not limited to the chief financial officer, to certify that a completing carrier’s quarterly compensation payments are accurate and complete, and (3) eliminate expired payphone compensation rules.
• Spectrum Horizons:  A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks comment on proposed rules that would apply to spectrum above 95 GHz for licensed services, unlicensed operations, and a new class of experimental licenses.
• Encouraging the Provision of New Technologies and Services: A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to provide guidelines and procedures to implement section 7 of the Communications Act, as amended, to improve FCC processes to promote the provision of new technologies and services to the public.
• Mobility Fund Phase II Second Order on Reconsideration: An Order addressing the remaining issues raised by parties in petitions for reconsideration of the Mobility Fund Phase II Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
• Maintenance of Copies of FCC Rules:  A Report and Order that would eliminate specific Part 74, 76, and 78 rules that require certain broadcast and cable entities to maintain paper copies of FCC rules, while retaining provisions that require the subject entities to be familiar with the rules governing their operations.

 The FCC will also consider a broadcast item.

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