The FCC has published the tentative agenda for its September 2024 Open Meeting. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 26, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, and will be livestreamed at www.fcc.gov/live and available on the FCC’s YouTube channel. The agenda includes the following items:
Improving Access to Video Conferencing Services (CG Docket Nos. 23-161,…
North Carolina has launched its challenge process for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program. Local and tribal governments, broadband providers, and nonprofits can submit data challenging eligible locations for inclusion in the BEAD program, which launches in early 2025. The deadline to submit challenges is October 3 at 11:59 p.m. North Carolina received…
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau has granted Resound Networks, LLC a limited waiver of the RDOF service milestone and non-compliance rules and will remove Resound’s obligation to serve certain areas of Oklahoma and Arizona where it overlaps with certain Tribal lands. The FCC has granted this limited waiver in light of an agreement between Resound…
The Wireline Competition Bureau has announced that the FCC Form 484 application filing window for the $200 million Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program (Pilot Program) will open on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 8 a.m. E.T., and close on Friday, November 1, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. E.T. During this filing window, eligible schools, libraries,…
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology have confirmed the addition of Kaspersky Lab Inc.’s cybersecurity and anti-virus software to the Covered List and noted that any equipment that integrates cybersecurity or anti-virus software produced or provided by Kaspersky is prohibited from obtaining an FCC equipment authorization. Kasperky’s…
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved the full initial proposals for Mississippi and South Dakota for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Mississippi will have access to more than $1.2 billion and South Dakota will have access to more than $207 million to fund BEAD projects. The states…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has launched a new portal for organizations to voluntarily report cyber incidents. The new portal’s functionality allows users to save and update reports, share submitted reports for the purposes of third-party reporting, and search and filter reports. The portal also enables users to engage in informal discussions with…
The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) has dismissed a Petition for Reconsideration filed in January 2024 by Virginia resident Greg Weisiger, who was seeking a reversal of the FCC’s affirmation of the Bureau’s rejection of Starlink’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) award. The Petition was dismissed based on various procedural grounds, but mainly that the…
The FCC has adopted a Second Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration modifying the previous framework for the 5G Fund for Rural America that was adopted in 2020. The numerous modifications to the 5G Rural Fund rules include: (1) commencing the disaggregation of mobile legacy high-cost support upon announcement of the authorization of 5G…
The FCC has adopted a Report and Order to enable initial drone operations in the 5 GHz band for wireless communications necessary to safely control the flights of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The Commission has established initial service rules that allow operators to obtain direct frequency assignments in a portion of the 5030-5091 MHz band…
