The CBS News ombudsman has started accepting complaints about the network's coverage, according to the network's website. "Have feedback for the CBS News Ombudsman? Please reach out to ombudsman@cbsnews.com and the ombudsman will review your inquiry as soon as possible," it says.
The call-branding Further NPRM on the FCC's October agenda (see 2510070038) needs to delve more into what happens when originating providers don't meet their branding obligations, ZipDX said Monday (docket 17-59). Language about "enforceability" doesn't spell out who the enforcers might be or what obligations they might have, the conferencing service provider said. It called for the FNPRM to ask what entities, aside from the originating provider, should have responsibility in ensuring that caller identity information is correct.
EchoStar's proposed sale of its AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to SpaceX (see 2509080052) rewards the company for spectrum warehousing, wrote Matthew Glavy, the former head of the Marine Corps Cyberspace Command, in Saturday's Washington Examiner. Ligado is following the same model, sitting on unused spectrum and then trying to flip it for big profits, he said, and the FCC should resist the temptation to let Ligado consummate a spectrum deal with AST SpaceMobile.
Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawyer Eric Troutman has filed as an independent candidate for a U.S. House seat representing parts of Orange County, California, he announced on his TCPAWorld blog Saturday. Democratic Rep. Dave Min is the incumbent.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr reacted Saturday to the nationwide No Kings protests, saying in a post on X that the demonstrations “were more effective than they appeared,” because the U.S. has a president “with a mandate to make his country great” instead of a king. “We have a President, elected by an historic and overwhelming vote of the American people -- an election won in the face of lawfare, media opposition, and multiple attempts to take away the choice that rightly resides in the hands of our electorate,” Carr wrote, with a photo of President Donald Trump’s face accompanying the post.
A draft further NPRM proposing the relaxation of some FCC requirements for broadband labels is expected to be approved at the agency’s Oct. 28 meeting, but it isn’t yet clear how Commissioner Anna Gomez will vote on it.
BEAD won't close the digital divide and should be seen "as the new floor to work from, not the finish line," Connect Humanity wrote last week. Flawed FCC broadband maps and locations removed from BEAD eligibility due to coverage by unlicensed fixed wireless have meant that numerous homes "slipped through the cracks." The locations receiving satellite broadband "are not getting the digital foundations for business development and industrial investment," the group said, noting that BEAD's 100/20 Mbps speed target runs the risk of being out of date and inadequate before networks are built. BEAD also doesn't address affordability, which is a huge barrier to adoption, it said.
An array of faith-based organizations are lobbying the FCC's 10th floor to get it to reverse or alter course on the prison-calling draft order and Further NPRM that are before commissioners. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr circulated the draft order earlier this month (see 2510070044), proposing to change the agency's rate-cap-setting methodology and include security and surveillance costs in the rates. "Deeply held Catholic beliefs show that the lowest possible rates should be offered to families and incarcerated people," the faith groups said in a docket 23-62 filing posted Friday to recap meetings with FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty and staffers for Carr and Commissioner Anna Gomez.
Some Chinese testing labs are urging the FCC to reconsider its revocation of their recognition. The agency started proceedings in September to remove the recognition from some labs it said were controlled by the Chinese government (see 2509080058), and it denied recognition renewal applications for others (see 2509260036). In filings posted Friday, several argued that there's no ground for them to lose recognition.
Eric Tamarkin, Samsung's public policy counsel, called on the FCC to move forward to fully implement the voluntary cyber trust mark program, approved by FCC commissioners 5-0 in March 2024 (see 2403140034). Tamarkin spoke during the final policy panel of the Mobile World Congress last week in Las Vegas.