The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) extended some deadlines occurring from August 29 to September 30 for licensees and applicants in areas affected by Hurricane Ida.

Carriers in the Louisiana area are continuing to work on restoring their communications networks that were knocked out by Hurricane Ida earlier this week.

The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) granted a request from the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) for a temporary waiver to allow amateur radio users to transmit at a higher symbol rate to help facilitate relief communications following Hurricane Ida.

The FCC pushed back the deadlines for applicants to submit upfront payments and resubmit incomplete applications in the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz spectrum auction due to Hurricane Ida.

AT&T and Verizon said that Hurricane Ida has impacted their networks in areas of Louisiana.

The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) membership approved its 2022 operations plan, which includes the goals of its four committees for the next 12 months.

T-Band has always been somewhat of a complicated spectrum resource in which to conduct frequency coordination. The band was made available about fifty years ago, before propagation prediction and other spectrum management tools were widely available as they are today. Consequently, the FCC adopted license assignment rules based on what they knew back in the early 1970s. Systems were analog, channels were 25 kHz wide, and deploying trunking technology was not yet a routine system decision. Protocols adopted by the FCC may have made sense 5o years ago, but not so much today.

The FCC is seeking comment on appropriate industry stakeholders to form a search committee to select a reimbursement clearinghouse to oversee the reimbursement of relocation expenses for certain secondary, non-federal licensees in the 3.45 – 3.55 GHz band.

The FCC released a public notice seeking comment on using the 5.03 – 5.091 GHz band to support unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations.

The FCC announced that its recently adopted rules to help fight 9-1-1 fee diversion will go into effect October 18.