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Limits on Exempted Calls Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
In this document, the Commission takes steps to implement of the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act). First, the Commission codifies the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) exemptions for calls to wireless numbers into the rules to make those exemptions more clear and understandable...
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Call Authentication Trust Anchor
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks comment on a proposal to create a limited role for the Commission to oversee certificate revocation decisions by the private STIR/SHAKEN governance system that would have the effect of placing voice service providers in noncompliance with our rules.
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Protecting Consumers From One-Ring Scams
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) implements section 12 of the TRACED Act in order to enable voice service providers to block calls from numbers associated with a type of illegal robocall known as a one-ring scam. The Commission also, pursuant to the TRACED Act, expands collaborative law enforcement and...
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Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through FCC Programs
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) establishes rules to publish a list of covered communications equipment and services determined to be a risk to national security. Eligible telecommunications carriers (ETCs) that receive universal service funding to provide service in remote areas of the country must remove...
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Unlicensed White Space Device Operations in the Television Bands
In this document, the Commission revises its rules to expand the ability of unlicensed white space devices to deliver wireless broadband services in rural areas and areas where fewer broadcast television stations are on the air. The Commission also modifies its rules to facilitate the development of new and innovative narrowband Internet of...
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Restoring Internet Freedom; Bridging the Digital Divide for Low-Income Consumers; Lifeline and Link Up Reform and Modernization
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) responds to a remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit directing the Commission to assess the effects of the Commission's Restoring Internet Freedom Order on public safety, pole attachments, and the statutory basis for broadband internet access service's...
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Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment
In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau of Federal Communications Commission (Commission) makes two ministerial updates to the Commission's rules revising a now inaccurate cross-reference to the definition of copper retirement in changing it from now-repealed), and an inaccurate cross-reference to the definition of ``technology...
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Expanding Consumers' Video Navigation Choices; Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) eliminates outdated CableCARD support and reporting requirements and terminates related dockets.
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All-Digital AM Broadcasting, Revitalization of the AM Radio Service
The Federal Communications Commission provides an option for AM stations to broadcast using an all-digital signal.
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4.9 GHz Band
In March 2018, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) released a Sixth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Sixth FNPRM) seeking comment on ways to stimulate expanded use of and investment in the 4.9 GHz (4940-4990 MHz) band, including allowing licensees the flexibility to engage in spectrum leasing and broadening existing...
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4.9 GHz Band
In this Seventh Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) proposes rules for a new state-based licensing regime for public safety operations in the 4.9 GHz band, which would complement the new leasing regime adopted in the Sixth Report and Order. The Seventh FNPRM proposes to make permanent...
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Establishing a 5G Fund for Rural America
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) acts on its proposal to retarget universal service funding for mobile broadband and voice in the high-cost program to support the deployment of 5G services by establishing the 5G Fund for Rural America as a replacement for the Mobility Fund Phase II and adopting the...
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Sponsorship Identification Requirements for Foreign Government-Provided Programming
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on rules proposing to require specific disclosure requirements for broadcast programming that is paid for, or provided by a foreign government or its representative.
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Requiring Records of Cable Operator Interests in Video Programming; Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative
In this document, the Commission eliminates the rules requiring that cable operators maintain records in their online public inspection files regarding the nature and extent of their attributable interests in video programming services, as well as information regarding cable operators' carriage of such vertically integrated video programming...
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Cable Service Change Notifications; Modernization of Media Regulation Initiative; Retransmission Consent
In this document, the Commission revises the regulations governing the notices that cable operators must provide subscribers and local franchise authorities (LFAs) regarding rate and service changes. Specifically, document amends the rules to clarify that when service changes occur due to retransmission consent or program carriage negotiations...
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FCC Seeks Comment on Proposed Application Limit for NCE FM New Station Applications in Upcoming 2021 Filing Window
The Commission recently adopted changes to its rules and procedures for considering competing applications for new noncommercial educational (NCE) FM radio stations in Reexamination of the Comparative Standards and Procedures for Licensing Noncommercial Educational Broadcast Stations and Low Power FM Stations, MB Docket No. 19-3, Report and...
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Improving Video Relay Service and Direct Video Calling; Implementing Kari's Law and Section 506 of RAY BAUM'S Act; Inquiry Concerning 911 Access, Routing and Location in Enterprise Communications Systems; Amending the Definition of Interconnected VoIP Service; Video Relay Service Call Handling
In this document, the Commission announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved, for a period of three years, the information collection associated with rules adopted in the Commission's documents Structure and Practices of the Video Relay Service Program, et. al, Report and Orders, FCC 19-39 and FCC 20-7; and Implementing...
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Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services
In this document, the Commission continues to comprehensively reform inmate calling services rates and charges to ensure just and reasonable rates for interstate and international inmate calling services. In response to a directive from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Commission determined that,...
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Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services
In this document, the Commission continues to comprehensively reform inmate calling services rates to ensure just and reasonable rates for interstate and international inmate calling services. Specifically, the Commission proposes to lower the current interstate rate caps to $0.14 per minute for debit, prepaid, and collect calls from prisons and...
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Schedule of Application Fees
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks comment on new application fee rates.