Voice on the Net Coalition representatives met with FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau staff to discuss the group’s proposal on robotexting rules. VON proposes “that the Commission require and oversee a process whereby a neutral, third-party entity is selected to vet application-to-person traffic on a technology-neutral basis, with policies applied equally to all traffic regardless of whether the traffic in question is initiated via a Unified Communications as a Service platform or directly on a mobile network operator network,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 21-402. “By engaging in this common-sense level of oversight, the Commission would further the goal of protecting consumers, combating unlawful text messages, and promoting competition in the marketplace for communications services,” the group said.

T-Mobile notified the FCC it completed its acquisition of Ka’ena, including brands Mint Mobile and Ultra Mobile, which the company announced last week (see 2405010035). The notice was posted Wednesday in docket 23-171.

Qualcomm supported proposed FCC rules allowing drone use of the 5030-5091 MHz band during a meeting with an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, who circulated the order last month (see 2404080065). “The scaling of UA [unmanned aircraft] in a limited shared airspace will stress the need for self-separation and safety critical messaging between UAs, especially in emergency situations where network connectivity is unavailable, limited, or degraded,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 23-323: “UA-to-UA communications can meet this need, supporting a much more intensively occupied shared airspace.”

The Alaska Connect Fund is critical to improving mobile service in the state, the Alaska Telecom Association said in a series of meetings at the FCC. “We urged the Commission to quickly move forward” on the fund “to provide needed certainty to carriers and the consumers they serve in the state,” a filing posted Tuesday in docket 10-90 said: “Universal service support is essential to make service available and affordable in Alaska and the Alaska Connect Fund can build on past successes.” The group met with aides to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and Commissioners Geoffrey Starks and Anna Gomez, and with staff at the Wireless and Wireline bureaus and the Office of Economics and Analytics.

The Wireless ISP Association agreed with out-of-band emissions concerns that NCTA raised about Samsung Electronics America’s request for a waiver for a 5G base station radio that works across citizens broadband radio service and C-band spectrum (see [Ref:2404090058). WISPA representatives spoke with an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, a filing this week in docket 23-93 said. “We explained that WISPA does not oppose Samsung’s specific request for waiver insofar as it requests a higher OOBE from the CBRS band into a specific portion of C-Band,” WISPA said: “However, WISPA expressed concern that the waiver request could be misinterpreted to allow the CBRS side of the radio to use the less restrictive C-band OOBE limits.”

Mavenir and Amazon Web Services announced a five-year strategic collaboration agreement for services that will target carriers as they move operations to the public cloud. The two companies will “jointly architect” Mavenir technology “to streamline the development, testing, integration, and application of cloud-native solutions -- harnessing the high availability, scalability, and security capabilities of AWS services to create a new telco-grade deployment model,” said a news release Monday. “We believe that this partnership will revolutionize the telco industry, allowing us to deliver innovative, scalable, and secure solutions that will shape the future of cloud-native services,” said Bejoy Pankajakshan, Mavenir chief technology and strategy officer.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Monday released three papers with recommendations about security and compliance when using AI. The papers are: "AI Organizational Responsibilities -- Core Security Responsibilities," "AI Resilience: A Revolutionary Benchmarking Model for AI" and "Principles to Practice: Responsible AI in a Dynamic Regulatory Environment." "Our mission is to create practical and sensible frameworks and guidance for enterprise security teams on AI,” said Caleb Sima, chair of the CSA AI Safety Initiative: “This is the first part of many of these deliverables to come in doing just that.”

CTIA and member companies asked that FCC act on requests for waivers for 5G base station radios that work across citizens broadband radio service and C-band spectrum (see 2303100019). CTIA reported on a meeting with aides to Commissioner Brendan Carr, saying they discussed “how Samsung sought to deploy a less intrusive and more energy-efficient mid-band radio more than 600 days ago." Said the filing posted Friday in docket 23-93: “Ericsson also submitted a similar petition that still is not on public notice after more than 400 days. Both requests require a narrow waiver to exceed the 3.7 GHz Service power limits in one specific circumstance: when the radio is being tested.” Samsung Electronics America, Ericsson, Qualcomm and Verizon participated in the meeting.

Major trade associations pressed the FCC to delay the current six-month deadline for implementing rules protecting consumers from SIM swapping and port-out fraud. Instead, the groups proposed carriers get an additional 12 months. CTIA, the Competitive Carriers Association and NCTA spoke with an aide to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. CTIA previously sought a yearlong delay (see 2402260062). The groups note that the actual deadline remains unclear, depending on how the order is interpreted. “If the current compliance deadline is not extended, providers’ compliance solutions will be suboptimal and under-tested because providers will be forced to rush the implementation process, risking significant impacts to customer experience and inconsistencies in the effectiveness of the implementation process,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 21-341. Providers need “a substantial amount of time -- at least 18 months … in total -- to develop effective and comprehensive compliance programs and deliver meaningful protections for consumers.”

Dish Wireless certified that it’s in compliance with new mandatory disaster response initiative (MDRI) requirements the FCC approved last year (see 2207060070). Dish “complies with the Commission’s MDRI rules and thus is entitled to a presumption of compliance with the Commission’s rules implementing the MDRI,” the company said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-346.