FCC Webinar On Robocalls, Scams, and Accessible Communications
In honor of Older Americans Month, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau announced a webinar focused on a range of telecommunications and video programming issues related to older Americans. The webinar will take place on May 22nd from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. It will provide older Americans and their family and friends with information and tips about the value of broadband connectivity (i.e., staying engaged, telehealth) dealing with robocalls, reporting suspicious calls to the FCC’s Consumer Complaint Center, and benefitting from the FCC’s rules requiring disability access to communications, including rules that require hearing aid compatibility, telecommunications relay services, emergency access, and closed captioning. The event will be streamed live online at www.fcc.gov/live.
FCC Open Meeting - May 2017
The FCC announced the agenda for its May 18, 2017, Open Meeting. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:30 am and will be broadcast live at www.fcc.gov/live. The agenda includes:
The FCC will also receive the Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau’s final report on its investigation into the VoLTE 911 outage AT&T Mobility experienced on March 8, 2017, and consider a Media Bureau consent item.
In connection with the meeting, the FCC issued a Guidance on the sunshine period in the “Restoring Internet Freedom” proceeding. Specifically, the sunshine period will begin on May 12, 2017, and will continue until the Commission releases the text of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking or removes it from the meeting agenda. Presentations, including comments, that are received during the Sunshine Agenda period and that do not meet an exception to the rules will be marked in the Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) as “SUNSHINE.” As such, they will be associated with, but not made a part of, the record in the proceeding. Presentations made by the public after the end of the Sunshine Agenda period will be made a part of the record of the proceeding.
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