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Access Charge Reform, Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers, Low-Volume Long Distance Users, and Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the modified integrated universal service and access charge reform proposal (modified proposal) submitted by the Coalition for Affordable Local and Long Distance Service (CALLS). After inter alia reviewing the comments and reply comments in response to...
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2000 Biennial Review; Streamlining Technical Criteria and Registration for Customer Premises Equipment
This document proposes to streamline most elements of the process by which technical criteria are established for customer premises equipment (CPE or terminal equipment) that, once approved, local exchange carriers must allow to be connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The document also proposes to minimize Commission...
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Commission Asks Parties To Update and Refresh Record on Mandatory Detariffing of CLEC Interstate Access Services
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) sought comment in two rulemaking dockets, the Access Charge Reform rulemaking docket and the Complete Detariffing for Competitive Access Providers and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC Detariffing) rulemaking docket, regarding the regulatory or market-based approaches that would ensure...
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Adoption of a Mandatory FCC Registration Number
The Commission proposes to amend its rules to require persons and entities doing business with the agency to obtain a unique identifying number, called the FCC Registration Number (FRN), through the Commission Registration System (CORES), and to provide the number when doing business with the agency. The FRN requirement is being proposed to...
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Exempt Presentations
The Commission proposes to amend its regulations specifying presentations that are treated as exempt under the ex parte rules. Under the current rule, presentations to or from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission regarding telecommunications competition matters are treated as exempt. The item would expand the scope of the...
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CLEC Access Charge Reform
This document extends the deadline for filing comments in an ongoing FCC proceeding considering whether and how to reform the manner in which competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) may tariff the charges for the switched local exchange access service that they provide to inter-exchange carriers (IXCs).
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Software Defined Radios
This document proposes to streamline the equipment authorization procedures for software defined radios. Specifically, we propose to define software defined radios as a new class of equipment with equipment authorization rules that reflect the additional flexibility incorporated into such radios. We believe that these changes will facilitate the...
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Revisions to Broadcast Auxiliary Service Rules
In this document the Commission conducts an extensive review of the Broadcast Auxiliary Services (BAS) rules and proposes changes to create a more efficient BAS that can readily adapt to regulatory and technological changes. In addition, the Commission examines the relationship between BAS, the Cable Television Relay Service (CARS), and the...
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Implementation of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 and the Development of Competition and Diversity in Video Programming Distribution: Section 628(c)(5) of the Communications Act-Sunset of Exclusive Contract Prohibition.
The Commission issues this document in accordance with section 628(c)(5) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Section 628(c)(2)(D) generally prohibits, in areas served by a cable operator, exclusive contracts for satellite cable programming or satellite broadcast programming between vertically integrated programming vendors and cable...
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Truthful Statements
The Commission proposes to amend its regulations relating to the submission of truthful information to the Commission. Under the current rule, Commission regulatees must not, in any written statement submitted to the Commission, make any misrepresentation or willful material omission bearing on any matter within the jurisdiction of the...
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Repetitious or Conflicting Applications
In this document the Commission proposes to amend its rules concerning repetitious or conflicting applications. This proposal will simplify and clarify the Commission's rules and promote the most efficient use of the Commission's resources.
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Second Periodic Review of the Commission's Rules and Policies Affecting the Conversion to Digital Television
This document commences the Commission's second periodic review of the progress of the conversion to digital television. The document revisits several issues addressed in the first periodic review and solicits comment on a number of additional issues that the Commission believes essential to resolve to ensure continued progress on the transition.
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Extend Interference Protection for the Marine and Aeronautical Distress and Safety Frequency at 406.025 MHz
The Commission proposes to provide interference protection for the international emergency digital distress and safety frequency operating at 406.025 MHz. New Emergency Position Indicated Radio Beacons (EPRIBs) and Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs) are using digital signals operating on 406.025 MHz instead of the traditional analog signals...
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Facilitate the Provision of Fixed and Mobile Broadband Access, Educational and Other Advanced Services in the 2150-2162 and 2500-2690 MHz Bands
In this document the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes rules that would require Multipoint Distribution Service (MDS) and Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) operators to limit the strength of some or all of the radio signals they transmit to levels that would make it possible for operators in adjacent service areas to...
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Rules To Benefit the Consumers of Air-Ground Telecommunications Services; Biennial Regulatory Review
In this document, the Commission seeks comment on its rules governing the provision of air-ground telecommunications services on commercial airplanes in order to enhance the options available to the public. The Commission also proposes to revise or eliminate certain Public Mobile Services (PMS) rules that have become obsolete as the result of...
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Federal Government 3G Relocation
This document proposes to make spectrum available for Federal Government operations that will be displaced from the band 1710-1850 MHz as a result of making the 1710-1755 MHz segment available to support the introduction of new non-Federal Government advanced wireless services (AWS), including third generation wireless (3G) systems. The...
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Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields
This document seeks comment on proposed amendments to the FCC's rules and regulations relating to compliance of transmitters and facilities with guidelines for human exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy. These proposals are intended to ensure protection of the public from potentially adverse health effects from RF exposure, while avoiding any...
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Biennial Regulatory Review-Streamlining and Harmonizing Various Rules Affecting Wireless Radio Services
In this document, the Commission opens a proceeding to streamline and harmonize licensing provisions in the wireless radio services (WRS) that were identified in part during the Commission's 2000 and 2002 biennial regulatory reviews pursuant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (``Communications Act'' or ``Act''). Specifically, the...
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Facilitating the Provision of Fixed and Mobile Broadband Access, Educational and Other Advanced Services in the 2150-2162 and 2500-2690 MHz Bands
In this document, a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposes rules concerning the Broadband Radio Service (BRS) and the Educational Broadband Service (EBS) in the 2496-2690 MHz band. The FNPRM further proposes rules to govern the transition of the 2500-2690 MHz band when the transition...
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Air-Ground Telecommunications Services
In this document, the Commission requests comment on competitive bidding procedures for commercial and general aviation Air- Ground Radiotelephone Service licenses. In a related document, the Commission has revised the rules and band plan governing the commercial Air-Ground Radiotelephone Service. If mutually exclusive applications are filed for...