Verizon and the Rural Wireless Association clashed over whether third-party participants in the T-Mobile/UScellular proceeding should have access to information Verizon wants to keep private. Verizon in particular seeks to block disclosure of any mobile virtual network operator wholesale agreements between Verizon’s affiliates and third parties, including the wholesale agreement between Verizon and Mediacom Communications.
The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) urged the FCC to consider adding communications equipment and services associated with connected vehicle technologies to the “covered list” of unsecure equipment when it poses a risk to national security. Comments are due June 27 on the finding by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security that the provision of some connected vehicle hardware or software by Chinese- or Russian-controlled entities can pose “an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security and the safety and security of U.S. persons.”
The FCC agreed Wednesday to give Network Tool & Die (NTAD) more time to file data, which was due March 3, as part of the commission’s broadband data collection program. NTAD is a provider of fixed broadband services subject to the BDC filing requirements. The data is now due in 30 days.
T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert is looking to exit the company, which he has led since 2020, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported Monday. T-Mobile U.S. is partially owned by Germany’s Deutsche Telekom.
Public Knowledge and the Electronic Privacy Information Center urged the FCC to take privacy into consideration as the agency looks at wireless location accuracy for 911 calls (see 2506090022). Comments were posted this week in docket 07-114. “The Commission has presented acceptable proposals to make [enhanced 911] better, but has failed to properly consider in its proposals the importance of consumer privacy,” the groups said. Before adopting new E911 rules, the FCC should “seek further comment on how to protect subscriber information, including Customer Proprietary Network Information, as demands for sensitive location data increase.”
AT&T has the spectrum it needs for its wireless network for now but must be open-minded when any bands become available, AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches said Tuesday at the Mizuho Technology Conference. Desroches also predicted that by the end of the current decade, nearly all economically viable locations will be reached with fiber, which is why the carrier is pushing hard on fiber today.
Federated Wireless representatives urged the FCC to protect citizens broadband radio service operations from harmful interference in a meeting with an aide to Chairman Brendan Carr. There are “practical, near-term improvements” to CBRS operations that “can be readily implemented,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 17-258. They include “more realistic incumbent protections, higher base station power and harmonized out-of-band emissions.”
The FCC released Monday a small-entity compliance guide on recent changes to wireless emergency alert rules (see 2502270042). “Participating wireless providers must support an alert originator’s selection of whether a WEA message will be presented silently, i.e., without triggering the common audio attention, the common vibration cadence, or both, in the mobile device presenting the WEA Alert Message,” the guide says. “If the alert originator indicates that a specific alert should not play the attention signal and should not cause the device to vibrate, then participating wireless providers should send those instructions to the device in an appropriate manner resulting in the device executing the instructions.”
A Trump administration cybersecurity executive order released Friday is a positive step in efforts to roll out the voluntary cyber trust mark program, the Consumer Technology Association said Monday. The order mandates that by Jan. 4, 2027, all IoT devices sold to the government must carry the cyber trust mark. “This is an important step in making many years of work by CTA, industry, and government to raise the bar on cybersecurity of connected devices a reality,” David Grossman, vice president of policy and regulatory affairs, said in an email. The program was approved 5-0 by FCC commissioners last year (see 2403140034).
The FCC should “refrain” from changing citizens broadband radio service power levels and out-of-band emissions limits in areas outside the contiguous U.S. (CONUS), GCI representatives said in a meeting with FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology staff. The Alaskan carrier continues to offer critical fixed satellite services over the C band in areas outside CONUS, “such as Alaska, which require protection from harmful interference,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 17-258. “Such services include long distance services to remote villages, special access services, connectivity to support FAA air travel safety systems and weather cameras, middle-mile capacity, the delivery of telehealth services, and mobile wireless coverage via 2G and LTE-over-Satellite wireless services, among other important services.”