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FCC Proposes Changes to Emergency Alerting System

March 17, 2021 | Comments

The FCC proposed rules to improve the way the public receives emergency alerts on their mobile phones, televisions and radios.

March 17, 2021 | Comments

The Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) filed a letter with the FCC asking it to lift the freeze on the availability of 800 MHz expansion band (EB) and guard band (GB) spectrum in the Mexican border region (MBR).

March 17, 2021 | Comments

The FCC adopted a framework for sharing communications outage information with state, federal and tribal nation agencies to improve their situational awareness, enhance their ability to respond more quickly to outages affecting their communities, and to help save lives, while safeguarding the confidentiality of the data.

March 17, 2021 | Comments

The FCC took action to open up mid-band spectrum in the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz band available to auction to facilitate 5G deployment across the contiguous United States.

March 16, 2021 | Comments

The online general meeting of the PMeV – Netzwerk Sichere Kommunikation (German Association and Network for Critical Communications) approved its board of management for another two years.

March 16, 2021 | Comments

The 800 MHz Transition Administrator (TA) filed a report with the FCC notifying it that, aside from two exceptions, all activities related to 800 MHz rebanding is now complete.

March 15, 2021 | Comments

The final rules from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requiring remote ID of drones and allowing some drone flights over people, over moving vehicles and at night under certain conditions will go into effect on April 21.

March 12, 2021 | Comments

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) released a list of communications equipment and services that have been deemed a threat to national security, consistent with requirements in the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019.

March 12, 2021 | Comments

The FCC issued a majority of the priority access licenses (PAL) won in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) auction.

March 12, 2021 | Comments

The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) released certification and registration instructions for public-safety answering points (PSAPs) planning to request delivery of real-time text (RTT) 9-1-1 service from commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers.