FCC Posts Meeting Items on RLEC Rate Floor, Part 95 Devices, Mobile Earth Stations
The FCC Friday released the full text of three items it adopted at its meeting Thursday. A combined order/NPRM blocks hikes in a rural telco USF-related rate floor while the commission considers possible policy changes (see 1705180061). Another order makes…
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broad changes to the Part 95 personal radio service rules for Citizens Band radios; walkie-talkies; radio-controlled toy cars, boats and planes; hearing assistance devices; and more sophisticated apparatus including medical implants and personal locator beacons (see 1705180040). A separate NPRM aims to harmonize various mobile earth station rules and open up the conventional Ka-band to those earth stations in motion (see 1705180042).