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The FCC addresses petitions for reconsideration regarding licensed and unlicensed wireless microphone operations across the TV bands, 600 MHz band, and other frequency allocations, while proposing expanded Part 74 license eligibility for smaller professional venues.
The FCC has released a draft First Report and Order in ET Docket No. 15-170 proposing to streamline equipment authorization by creating the Supplier's Declaration of Conformity, codifying electronic labeling rules, eliminating FCC Form 740 import declarations, and updating measurement standards.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology has extended the waiver of push notification rules for white space devices and databases through September 30, 2017.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has granted in part and denied in part petitions for review concerning the FCC's 2015 Inmate Calling Services Order, vacating intrastate rate caps, cost averaging methodologies, and video visitation reporting rules.
The Federal Communications Commission has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to collect $356,710,992 in regulatory fees for FY 2017, proposing FTE reallocations, adjustments to DBS rates, and an increase to the de minimis exemption threshold.
The Federal Communications Commission adopted a comprehensive Report and Order reforming Part 95 Personal Radio Services, updating technical standards, licensing terms, and equipment authorization rules for FRS, GMRS, CBRS, and RCRS.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied petitions for rehearing en banc regarding the FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order, issuing concurring and dissenting statements on statutory authority and the First Amendment.
The FCC has adopted a comprehensive Report and Order in WT Docket No. 10-119, reorganizing Part 95 Personal Radio Services, updating FRS and GMRS channel allocations and power limits, phasing out combo radios, and relaxing legacy CB rules.
The Federal Communications Commission adopted a Report and Order in ET Docket No. 15-99 implementing international frequency allocations from the WRC-12 Final Acts across amateur, maritime, aviation, and radiolocation bands.
The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau released a comprehensive report detailing handset hearing aid compatibility, ratings, and technology deployments across wireless service providers for 2016.
The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau released a comprehensive report compiling hearing aid compatibility ratings and technical air interface data for mobile handsets offered during 2016.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology granted a waiver of Part 15 rules to Headsight, Inc., allowing the certification and marketing of the Terrahawk UWB ground-penetrating radar for agricultural harvesting and soil imaging applications.
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Report and Order modifying Part 25 Ancillary Terrestrial Component rules, permitting Globalstar, Inc. to deploy a managed low-power terrestrial broadband network in its licensed 2483.5-2495 MHz spectrum.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler clarifies the Commission's technical jurisdiction, equipment authorization conditions, and coordination processes regarding cell site simulators.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology granted a waiver of Part 15 rules to L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Inc., allowing certification and indoor deployment of its Next Gen ProVision security screening portal operating from 20 to 40 GHz.
The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has denied extension requests filed by Intelligent Transportation & Monitoring Wireless LLC, Skybridge Spectrum Foundation, and V2G LLC, ruling that 2,132 Part 22 paging licenses automatically terminated as of November 3, 2015.
The FCC has granted in part Applications for Review by Matthew Keys and Shawn Musgrave, directing the release of nonexempt portions of a Harris Corporation device user manual.
The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology granted a waiver of Part 15 ultra-wideband rules to Kyma Medical Technologies Ltd. for its uCor 3.0 medical imaging and diagnostic device.
The FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau has issued a report compiling mobile handsets offered by manufacturers from July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016, detailing air interfaces, operating frequencies, and hearing aid compatibility ratings.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has reversed the FCC's order preempting Tennessee and North Carolina state laws that restrict municipal broadband expansion, holding that Section 706 lacks a clear statement authorizing federal reordering of state-municipal power.