The FCC Enforcement Bureau on Monday removed the certification of Chase Tech from the commission’s robocall mitigation database. The company’s certification “was found to contain false information regarding the Company as it submitted personal identification information of an individual who is unaffiliated with the Company, thus making the certification deficient under the Commission’s rules,” the bureau said.
The FCC Enforcement Bureau issued a pirate broadcasting notice to Tao and Persephone Lundolos of Booneville, Mississippi, about pirate radio broadcasts allegedly coming from property they own there. Hosting an unauthorized broadcast could result in a fine of up to $2.45 million for the property owners, the bureau said in a letter Friday.
The Enforcement Bureau has extended the deadline to Oct. 17 for responses to its 2025 equal employment opportunity audit letters and will allow stations targeted in the audit to keep their responses to questions about diversity practices private, said a public notice Friday. Responses had been due Sept. 22.
The FCC Wireline Bureau has rejected a petition by CRC Communications asking for a waiver of agency rules about Connect America Fund Phase II noncompliance. In a docket 10-90 order Friday, the bureau said that while CRC argued that its subcontractor, WiValley, going out of business made it unable to fulfill its CAF Phase II carrier obligations, CRC didn't explain how it failed to notice it wasn't actually offering service meeting FCC requirements despite certifying that it was. CRC will be subject to CAF Phase II noncompliance measures if it doesn't serve its required number of locations, the bureau said.
Eutelsat wants to raise $1.76 billion, which will affect its ownership and in turn require a transfer of its licenses, it told the FCC Space Bureau on Wednesday. In applications covering its OneWeb and Satelites Mexicanos subsidiaries that have U.S. market access, Eutelsat said the proposed fundraising transaction would see the French government increase its share of capital to 29.65%, up from 13.59%. It said other key shareholders will also participate, and the transaction will give France three board seats, compared with the one it has now. The additional financing will let Eutelsat accelerate its investment in existing low earth orbit projects and new initiatives, it said.
The FCC unanimously approved a $40,000 forfeiture against Wilner Baptiste for operating a pirate radio station in Spring Valley, New York. Baptiste operated “M-One Radio Live,” also known as “M-One Live Radio," according to the forfeiture order. Enforcement Bureau field agents traced Baptiste’s signal in February and June 2024, and the FCC issued a notice of apparent liability against him in September 2024 (see 2409260026).
The full FCC has voted to reject the Weather Alert Radio Network’s appeal of a 2024 Media Bureau decision rejecting 105 WARN applications for low-power FM stations in nine U.S. states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, said an order Thursday. WARN’s applications didn’t meet FCC requirements for a public safety radio service, and it didn’t provide any documentation that it had been in contact with state, local and national public safety entities, the order said. “Because WARN had not established that a public safety organization had officially authorized it to provide a public safety radio service on its behalf in the relevant proposed service area,” it didn’t meet the agency’s requirements that it have jurisdiction in its service area.
Consumer Technology Association representatives discussed spectrum, national security and other issues with Commissioner Olivia Trusty, according to a filing posted Thursday in 21-232 and other dockets. “CTA encourages continued investment in 5G and 6G infrastructure, broadband expansion and efficient use of licensed and unlicensed spectrum,” the filing said. “To that end we are pleased with the reinstatement of the FCC’s spectrum auction authority.”
SpaceX’s $17 billion purchase of EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block spectrum rights is a disruptive hit to L- and S-band satellite operators and their direct-to-device (D2D) plans, Iridium CEO Matt Desch said Thursday at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce aerospace and space event in Washington. Also at the event, Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, said overregulation is one of the chief issues facing the commercial space industry.
Comments are due Sept. 25 in docket 25-264 on AT&T's proposal to stop accepting applications for optical carrier network point-to-point and LightGate special access services everywhere they’re still available across the company’s 21-state legacy wireline footprint (see 2509030009), said a Wireline Bureau notice Wednesday. The bureau also sought comment by Sept. 25 in docket 25-265 on a similar proposal by GCI on local exchange service, “marketed as Basic Phone Service, Business Voice, No Limits Home Calling” serving Cordova, Alaska. “GCI is a nondominant provider in Cordova with respect to the services to be discontinued, and local telephone exchange services and voice calling are available from other carriers,” the provider said in a filing earlier this month.