Federal Communications Commission says Majority of U.S. States have joined FCC in Robocall Investigation Partnerships

Federal Communications Commission says Majority of U.S. States have joined FCC in Robocall Investigation Partnerships | site |



Alaska, California, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Washington State Sign New MOUs with FCC Enforcement Bureau


Information contained in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) press release dated: April 7, 2022

Washington, April 7, 2022 - - FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today announced five more state Attorneys General are partnering with the FCC in robocall investigations. With the majority of states having signed Memoranda of Understanding with the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, Chairwoman Rosenworcel also reached out to the remaining states to invite them to establish their own bi-lateral robocall investigation partnership. “It shows that we are united when it comes to fighting robocalls—urban, rural, north, south, east, and west,” said Chairwoman Rosenworcel...

Federal Communications Commission to consider designating 988 as the 3-digit Number for a National Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Crisis Hotline | site |



(December 5, 2019) - - Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published notice of an Open Meeting in which it intends to consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would propose to designate 988 as the 3-digit number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline.

The FCC will hold an Open Meeting on various subjects on Thursday, December 12, 2019, which is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. The meeting notice may be viewed at the following location:

FCC TO HOLD OPEN COMMISSION MEETING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2019

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Federal Communications Commission Proposes new Rules to Remove Bad Actors from Commission Programs | site |



Agency Would Have Improved Tools to Protect Its Universal Service & Accessible Communications Funds


(November 25, 2019) - - Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the following information:

WASHINGTON, November 22, 2019—The Federal Communications Commission today began a rulemaking which would adopt new procedures to protect federal funds from misuse. The proposed rules would provide the agency with broader and more flexible authority to promptly remove bad actors from participation in the Universal Service Fund (USF), the Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Fund, and the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program. The proposal would align FCC rules with the Office of Management and Budget’s Guidelines to Agencies on Government Debarment and Suspension. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ...

Federal Communications Commission approves use of Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System in the United States

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Washington, DC - - (November 15, 2018) - - Today, the Federal Communications Commission granted in part the European Commission’s request for a waiver of the Commission’s rules so that non-Federal devices in the United States may access specific signals transmitted from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) known as Galileo. With today’s action, consumers and industry in the United States will now be permitted to access certain satellite signals from the Galileo system to augment the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), and thus benefit from improved availability, reliability, and resiliency of these position, navigation, and timing services in the United States. Since the debut of the first consumer handheld GPS device in 1989, consumers and industry in the United States ha...

Federal Communications Commission Office of Engineering and Technology Requests Comment on Phase I Testing of Prototype U-NII-4 Devices

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Public Notice and comment site published


(October 29, 2018) - - Today, the Federal Communications Commission published information relating to Phase I Testing of Prototype U-NII-4 Devices. Included in that information was the following:

The Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) is requesting comment on the report for Phase I of tests performed to evaluate potential sharing solutions between the proposed Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices and Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) operations in the 5850-5925 MHz (U-NII-4) frequency band.

(To view the public notice, please press HERE.)

(Published reports and detailed summary of the testing methodology,...

Statement of Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in Response to FCC's Inspector General Report Finding No Distributed Denial of Service Attack During Net Neutrality Proceeding

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Washington, August 6, 2018:

“The Inspector General Report tells us what we knew all along: the FCC’s claim that it was the victim of a DDoS attack during the net neutrality proceeding is bogus. What happened instead is obvious—millions of Americans overwhelmed our online system because they wanted to tell us how important internet openness is to them and how distressed they were to see the FCC roll back their rights. It’s unfortunate that this agency’s energy and resources needed to be spent debunking this implausible claim.”

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Federal Communications Chairman Pai Statement on Office of Inspector General Report on FCC Comment System

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Washington, DC - - (August 6, 2018) - - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued the following statement regarding the Office of Inspector General’s independent investigation into the incident involving the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS): “For several months, my office has been aware of and cooperating with the Office of Inspector General’s independent investigation into the incident involving the FCC’s ECFS that took place on May 7-8, 2017. The Inspector General’s office asked my office not to discuss this investigation while it was ongoing so as not to jeopardize it, and my office has accommodated that request. “I want to thank the Office of the Inspector General, both for its thorough effort to get to the bottom of what h...