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FCC Releases Tentative Agenda for June Open Meeting

The FCC announced that the following items are tentatively on the agenda for the June Open Meeting, scheduled for Thursday, June 7, 2018.

• Next Steps to Open Spectrum Frontiers for 5G Connectivity:  A Third Report and Order, Memorandum Opinion and Order, and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would continue efforts to make available millimeter wave spectrum, in bands at or above 24 GHz, for fifth-generation wireless, Internet of Things, and other advanced spectrum-based services.  It would finalize rules for certain of these bands and seek comment on making additional spectrum available in the 26 GHz and 42 GHz bands for flexible terrestrial wireless use, sharing mechanisms in the Lower 37 GHz band, and earth station siting criteria for the 50 GHz band. 
• Wireline Infrastructure: A Second Report and Order that will revise the Commission’s section 214(a) discontinuance processes, network change disclosure processes, and Part 68 customer notification process to remove barriers to infrastructure investment and promote broadband deployment. 
• Eliminating Disparate Treatment of Rural Broadband Providers: An Order granting forbearance from applying Universal Service Fund contribution requirements to rural carriers’ broadband Internet access transmission services. 
• Audacy Corporation Space Station Authorization: An Order and Authorization that recommends granting Audacy’s request to construct, deploy, and operate a proposed non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) constellation to provide continuous, high-speed, low-latency relay services to other NGSO spacecraft operators through Audacy’s proposed satellites and gateway earth stations. 
• O3b Market Access Request: An Order and Declaratory Ruling that recommends granting a request to modify O3b’s existing U.S. market access grant by adding new non-geostationary satellites and new frequency bands in order to provide broadband communication services in the United States. 
• Updating the Intercarrier Compensation Regime to Eliminate Access Arbitrage: A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes measures to eliminate access arbitrage in the intercarrier compensation regime. 
• 8YY Access Charge Reform: A Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which proposes taking further steps in reforming intercarrier compensation by transitioning interstate and intrastate originating 8YY end office and tandem switching and transport charges to bill-and-keep and capping and limiting 8YY database query rates. 
• Text-Enabled Toll-Free Numbers:  A Declaratory Ruling and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will clarify the Commission’s rules regarding the authorization required to text-enable a toll-free number and propose further safeguards to promote the innovative use of toll-free numbers while protecting the integrity of the toll-free numbering system.
• Slamming and Cramming Rules: Report and Order to protect consumers from slamming (the unauthorized change of a consumer’s telephone provider) and cramming (the placement of unauthorized charges on a consumer’s telephone bill), including rules to address sales call misrepresentations and abuses of the third-party verification procedures.
• Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service Reform: A Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Notice of Inquiry to adopt measures, and seek comment on others, to ensure that Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS) remains sustainable for people with hearing loss who need it. 
• Leased Commercial Access; Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative: A Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that tentatively concludes that the Commission should vacate its 2008 Leased Access Order and invites comment on ways to modernize the existing leased access rules. 
• Enforcement Bureau Action – The Commission will consider an enforcement action.

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