The FCC Enforcement Bureau is warning Jacob Sanford of Brooklyn, New York, about pirate radio broadcasts allegedly coming from property he owns in Newark. Continuing to allow or engaging in pirate radio broadcasts could result in a fine of up to $2.45 million, the bureau said in a letter dated Friday and published in Monday's Daily Digest.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau announced Monday that the agency's 911 reliability certification system is open for filing annual certifications, which are due Oct. 15. All covered service providers "must annually certify as to their compliance with circuit auditing, backup power, and network monitoring reliability measures,” the bureau said. “If a CSP does not conform to the elements of any of these reliability measures, the CSP must certify [as] to reasonable alternative reliability measures or explain why the requirements do not apply to its network as appropriate.”
Apple and Meta Platforms asked the FCC to move forward on a new geofenced variable power device class with geofencing restrictions in the 6 GHz band. The geofenced devices would be able to operate at higher power levels than other very-low-power devices (see 2506160018).
Comments are due Aug. 25, replies Sept. 1., on Declaration Networks Group's proposed purchase of Procom, the FCC Wireline Bureau said Monday. Procom offers competitive local exchange, interexchange and other communications services in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio, while DNG provides competitive communications services in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Washington state, it said.
GCI agreed to pay a $10,000 fine for having an expired submarine cable landing license for its Alaska United East subsea cable system, according to an FCC Enforcement Bureau order in Monday's Daily Digest.
In a potential win for prisoners and their families, the FCC Wireline Bureau on Monday asked for comment on an application for review of a bureau order delaying some incarcerated people’s communications service deadlines until April 1, 2027 (see 2507310049). Supporters of the application said when they filed it that the bureau wasn't required by law to seek comment. Oppositions are due Aug. 29, replies Sept.15. All filings must refer to dockets 23-62 and 12-375, the bureau said.
As the FCC moves forward on revised copper retirement and other rule changes (see 2507240048), AT&T is quickly retiring parts of its network, said Jeremy Legg, chief technology officer for AT&T Services, at a KeyBanc financial conference Monday.
Consumers’ Research and its allies objected Friday to the proposed USF contribution factor for Q4, citing unanswered questions from the group’s unsuccessful challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court in late June. The factor is projected to increase from 36% in Q3 to 39.3% in Q4, based on the latest projections from the Universal Service Administrative Co. (see 2508040049).
Items on emergency alerting, business data services (BDS) and satellite licensing saw some changes of note before they were approved by FCC commissioners last week. The items were posted in Monday’s Daily Digest. The next FCC meeting won't be until Sept. 30.
The current administration's position on race- and gender-based governmental affirmative action obligations makes it unlikely that there will be future filings of the biennial ownership reports from broadcasters, Wilkinson Barker broadcast lawyer David Oxenford wrote Friday. The reports were instituted in large part to obtain race and gender information about broadcast ownership, as the data could potentially be used for FCC affirmative action considerations, Oxenford noted. In late July, the Media Bureau waived the requirement to file those reports for 18 months; they were to be due Dec. 1 (see 2507300070). Oxenford said the FCC's "Delete" proceeding has teed up a variety of other routine required filings from broadcasters that could be axed, such as the annual children's TV reports and the annual equal employment opportunity public inspection file reports.