There's now an accessibility feature in the Congressional Record daily edition where articles will be read aloud to users who click on the "listen to this page" feature on articles, the Library of Congress said Monday. The feature was previously available only in the Daily Digest.

Noting the 90,000-plus comments in docket 20-443 supporting SpaceX's opposition to opening the 12 GHz band to terrestrial service (see 2207060012), President Gwynne Shotwell urged closing the 12 GHz proceeding, in meetings with FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington, said an ex parte post Monday. The record has multiple studies "from all sides that unanimously show that high-power terrestrial services in this shared band would effectively wipe out existing satellite services," it said. "The Commission should listen to this outcry from across the country and reject the misleading efforts by speculators to line their pockets at the expense of the American people."

The FCC’s World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee will meet Sept. 12, starting at 11 a.m. EDT, the International Bureau said Friday. “Due to exceptional circumstances, the sixth WAC meeting will be convened as a virtual meeting with remote participation only,” an announcement said. The advisory committee provides industry input as the U.S. shapes its positions for the next WRC meeting.

Amazon will buy One Medical, a provider of telehealth and physical in-office healthcare services, for $3.9 billion in an all-cash transaction, said the companies Thursday. “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention,” said Amazon Health Services Senior Vice President Neil Lindsay. By combining with One Medical, “we believe we can and will help more people get better care,” he said. The One Medical buy should be “additive” to Amazon’s move into telehealth, Cowen’s John Blackledge wrote investors Thursday. One Medical’s telehealth sessions exceed its in-person visits by a 5-1 ratio, providing Amazon with more “scale in telehealth,” he said.

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer will address the Communications Equity and Diversity Council at the group’s virtual meeting Friday, said an agenda Wednesday. Three working groups will present reports: Digital Empowerment and Inclusion on recommendations for addressing digital discrimination, Innovation and Access on solutions to reduce entry barriers in media, tech and communications services, and Diversity and Equity on how the agency can advance equity, civil rights and racial justice.

SpaceX's Starlink is "engaged in a public misinformation campaign" as it tries to keep service providers from accessing the 12 GHz band, some 5G for 12GHz Coalition members said in docket 20-443 Wednesday. Since it has access to more than 15,000 megahertz of spectrum, "Starlink’s political play is not only unnecessary -- given its ample spectrum allocations outside the 12 GHz band -- it threatens to preclude other providers from being able to offer as many options to consumers as possible," they said. SpaceX didn't comment. Signing the filing were AtLink Services, A-Side Technology, GeoLinks, Globtel Holding, Go Long Wireless, MVD Number 53 Partners, Xiber and BroadbandOne. The coalition said Wednesday Starry had joined (see 2207200057).

Andrew Schwartzman is senior counselor at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society (see 2207120054).

FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks’ acting chief of staff and media adviser Austin Bonner has been detailed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said a news release Tuesday. “The White House is lucky to have her, and she will be deeply missed,” said Starks in the release. Wireline and National Security Adviser Justin Faulb becomes Starks’ chief of staff, and former Covington & Burling attorney Hannah Lepow will be his legal adviser for media and consumer protection, the release said.

NAB and tech industry groups still don’t agree on proposals to expand the base of regulatory fee payors, according to reply comments filed in 21-190 by Monday’s deadline. “It is inconceivable that Congress would prefer to see small broadcasters struggle to provide service to their local communities so they can subsidize massive technology companies,” said NAB. The FCC doesn’t have the authority to charge fees to companies it doesn’t regulate, said TechFreedom: “Especially after the Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. EPA, an administrative agency can’t undertake new regulations just because it’s a good idea -- they must be grounded in clear statutory authority.” In the short term, the FCC should exempt broadcasters from paying for the costs of the USF and for Media Bureau full-time equivalents connected with broadband policy, and cap the fee increases for broadcasters in the current draft order at 5%, said NAB. A group of 53 broadcasters said the agency should credit application fees against regulatory fees. “Cherry-picking one type of regulatee to exclude from contributing their share of the Commission’s indirect costs would threaten the administrability of the regulatory fee program as a whole,” said CTIA. The FCC “lacks legal authority to add a new regulatory fee category for broadband internet service providers,” said the Wireless ISP Association. The agency should develop a reduced fee category for small satellites and charge an interim fee in the meantime, said Spaceflight and Turion Space. “It is essential to the development" of the on-orbit services industry, "and not premature, that the Commission act now so that regulatory fees developed for traditional" non-geostationary satellite orbit "are not imposed on OOS missions,” said Spaceflight. The Satellite Industry Association disagreed: “The record supports the Commission’s conclusion that OOS services are still too immature for their own regulatory fee category at this time,” said SIA. “An interim regulatory fee schedule as suggested by Spaceflight is unnecessary.”

Minor changes were made to an FCC Further NPRM on curbing access stimulation adopted during the agency's July meeting, according to a comparison with the draft (see 2207140055). The FNPRM seeks comment on USTelecom's request to amend the proposed definition of an IP enabled services provider. No changes were made to a notice of inquiry seeking comment on how to improve access to Lifeline and the affordable connectivity program for survivors of domestic or sexual violence.