The FCC Enforcement Bureau notified the Beachwalk (At Hallandale) Condominium Association that it’s suspected of interfering with public safety communications through the use of a signal booster in the 799-805 MHz band. Agents detected the transmissions in January, emitting from a property that’s part of the Miami-area association, the bureau said.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau sought comment Wednesday on a request by the Monsey Fire District in New York to modify its private land mobile radio system by adding an 800 MHz specialized mobile radio to its two-site conventional system. Comments are due May 29, replies June 13, in universal licensing system file number 0011089434. The FCC posted the notice on its website's homepage.
The FCC Wireless Bureau sought comment Wednesday on a proposal by the C-band Relocation Payment Clearinghouse to “wind down and cease operations on or about June 30.” Comments are due May 29 in docket 18-122. “In its request, the RPC states that it has completed all substantive functions required under the Commission’s rules and the 3.7 GHz Report and Order,” the bureau said: “The RPC notes that all reimbursement claims have been reviewed, every claim approved in whole or in part has been invoiced, and only a single claim remains pending appeal.”
New CTIA President Ajit Pai met with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to discuss the group’s spectrum priorities, said a filing Wednesday in docket 25-59. Pai stressed the importance of the upper C band to carriers, the focus of a notice of inquiry commissioners approved 4-0 in February. CTIA urged the commission “to repurpose as much of the 220-megahertz band as possible for 5G,” the filing said.
Voice on the Net Coalition representatives met with an aide to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on concerns the group has about know-your-customer obligations as part of robocall rules (see 2505120034). VON is worried “about the lack of clarity” around the obligations “and the potential for significant fines for violations of what is obviously a vague standard,” it said in a filing posted Wednesday (docket 17-59).
The FCC Wireline Bureau on Wednesday granted a limited waiver of the support reduction schedule for some recipients of Connect America Fund high-cost support that missed a July 1 network performance testing certification deadline. The waiver applies to more than 20 companies.
FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington wants the agency to immediately begin “a top-to-bottom review” of its enforcement process and foster an internal culture of “legal humility over expansive power,” he said in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Hill. Like the others in Simington’s recent blitz of opinion columns (see 2505090068 and 2505130050), the op-ed was credited to both Simington and his Chief of Staff Gavin Wax. Simington and Wax said the agency needs to reform its enforcement procedures to account for U.S. Supreme Court rulings such as Jarkesy v. SEC, which courts have interpreted as rendering the FCC’s ability to assess monetary forfeitures unconstitutional (see 2504180021). Simington previously vowed to dissent from all monetary forfeiture votes until the agency reviews its enforcement powers (see 2409060054).
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The Trump administration’s tariffs will affect the cost of network equipment used in building BEAD projects, but they aren’t the program's biggest challenge, experts said Wednesday during a Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition webinar.
NextNav on Wednesday called on the FCC to move forward with an NPRM looking at its proposal for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in the 902-928 MHz band as an alternative to GPS. Others urged the FCC to encourage multiple alternatives as a backup to GPS. Reply comments were due Wednesday on a notice of inquiry that commissioners approved 4-0 in March (see 2503270042). Numerous commenters sharply criticized the NextNav proposal.