Robocall and LPTV Orders Included on FCC's December Meeting Agenda
The FCC commissioners' last meeting of 2025 will see votes on draft orders about robocalls and low-power TV (LPTV), Chairman Brendan Carr blogged Monday. He told reporters after the agency's meeting last week that the December agenda would likely be lighter than some previous months.
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Also on the schedule is the next in a series of direct final rule orders that the agency has undertaken this year. Carr said the December vote will involve 38 rules regulating outdated technologies that range from analog cable receivers to cordless phones.
The robocall order would require providers with direct access to phone numbers to certify and disclose information about “robocall compliance, public safety and national security," Carr said. Previously, those requirements applied only to new applicants, which has created “a gap in our protections,” he said. This proposed order “ensures every provider is subject to the same rules to protect consumers.”
Robocalls have been a recurring concern of Carr and previous FCC chairs. Comments were filed last week on ways to improve Stir/Shaken caller authentication rules (see 2511210035).
Carr said the LPTV item “updates our rules to reflect the changes in the broadcast industry since the LPTV service was established more than forty years ago and help LPTV broadcasters serve their communities effectively,” Carr said in his blog post. Last year, the previous FCC issued an NPRM proposing a number of changes and updates to the LPTV rules, and industry officials said they expect the December item to enact many of them. While that 2024 NPRM also included more controversial proposals to extend online public file requirements to LPTV stations, the December item isn’t expected to take those up.