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CSPAN2 FCC Open Meeting November 22, 2017

Federal communications commission. In proceedings which lasted over four hours the commissioners considered and voted on several issues including rowboat Call Blocking regulations. Media ownership rules into the a new broadcast standard for television. Good morning welcome to that november 2017 meeting of the federal communications commission. Good morning to you and good morning commissioners. You will hear eight items for your consideration first you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of robo calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls. It would prohibit Voice Service them blocking the 911 calls under these rules. To provide a mechanism to allow subscribers whose legitimate calls are blocked an error to stop such block it and clarify that providers may exclude. You will consider a report in order. Order on reconsideration. Provide four gigahertz for satellite use. Or affirm a number of Service Rules to promote robust climate. And the proposal making uncertain related earth station. Third you will consider a report in order to eliminate the requirement for Historic Preservation review. Where they are replaced with identical poles that can have other Wireless Communications equipment. To have the historic review rules into a single roll. Role. Fourth, you will consider a report in order. In further notice of proposed rulemaking order that will revise and seek comment on further changes to the attachment rules Network Change. As to remove barriers to Infrastructure Investment and promote broadband deployment. They will take targeted action to facilitate the broadband infrastructure after natural disaster. Fifty will consider a fourth important order order on reconsideration memorandum opinion and order. The notice of inquiry to adopt it proposed measures for the effective inefficiently bridge the Digital Divide for like mine prescribers in the Lifeline Program. You will consider an order on reconsideration and notice of proposed rulemaking that updates updates the commissions broadcast on the ownership to reflect the Current Media marketplace that denies and various other various other requests for risk consideration. That they will adopt in Incubator Program to promote ownership diversity and seeks comments on how to structure and administer such a program. You will consider a notice of proposed rulemaking that seeks comment on whether to eliminate form 325 in the annual report of Cable Television systems. Ways to modernize the form. You can consider a report in order. 3. 0. On a voluntary marketdriven basis. This is your agenda for today the first item entitled advanced methods to target and eliminate unlawful robo calls will presented by the consumer and Governmental Affairs bureau. Think you meant a secretary mister weber, whenever you are ready. Today i am pleased to introduce an item that takes another important step in combating illegal robo calls. Before they reach consumers phones. The item before you allows the Voice Service providers to block certain type of color idaho robo calls that are likely to be fraudulent. The proposed rules have wide support. Before turning the presentation over to cbc staff i would like to think other bureaus and offices for their system. The Enforcement Bureau the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau and the office of Strategic Planning. With me this morning a Kurt Schroeder the deputy chief of the division and karen schroeder. Karen will present the item. The spoof caller idaho information is a sign of an unlawful robo call. A vehicle for fraud. The item before you adopt rules authorizing Voice Service providers to block specific categories of calls with spoof caller ids. The truth makes it unlawful to speak caller idaho information with the intent to defraud, cause harm or wrongfully obtain anything of value. It demands money supposedly owed to the irs is breaking the law. They can lawfully display his or her Office Phone Number is the color idaho. The enema for you focuses on calls that are likely to be illegal because they they are not used to relate calls. First of the offer dash mess authorizing Voice Service providers. They request outbound calls be blocked. For example the irs could request that they block calls from telephone numbers it does not use for outgoing calls. Next item authorizes Voice Service providers to block calls when the caller idaho information cant possibly be accurate. They will not be able to block calls from north american plan numbers that are invalid. Numbers with area codes that dont exist. Numbers that have not been allocated by that north american Plan Administrator to a provider in numbers allocated to provider but not currently in use. The record generally indicates that the blocking of calls purporting to be for this for categories of numbers prevent them and very low risk of error. It also includes encourages them for them to establish a simple way to identify and fix blocking errors. The item before you also seeks content. On these roles. First the item seeks content on potential mechanisms to ensure that the blocked calls can be unloaded as quickly as possible. On ways to measure the effectiveness of the commissions and the industries in their efforts. We recommend adoption of this item. To make technical and conforming edits. Just last week as part of our nations veterans day of observance we paid tribute to those that protect and serve. In a great many ways to the men and women who fought for and defend our country not just by saying thank you when we pass them by but also by donating to their causes. It is extremely disheartening to read press reports about scammers who pray on our gratitude. That robo call they ask for money to help you as a military members. One woman last 2,400 because she believed that she was sending money to help a servicemember in need. Sadly, her story is not an isolated one. Scams like this happen too frequently. We must do everything in our power to stop them. According to you mail robo call index 2. 5 billion robo calls were made nationwide last month and a substantial number of them were unlawful. For today we establish rules to target this by giving Voice Service providers the ability to block this robo calls that are highly likely to be illegitimate. Will the adoption of todays report and order but an end to unlawful robo calls sadly no. But doing nothing ensures that things will get worse. So the commission has a responsibility to assess whether it can make a difference if it only makes it small that at first it will give notice to scammers that we mean business. I ask asked my colleagues to include a series of questions that could enable the agency to better assess the effectiveness of our rubble calling efforts. I did so because i believe they have the right to know what kind of jobs they are doing. We already have valuable data at our exposure. In coupled with the reporting obligation on providers in the commission issued report on the state of rubble calling i believe that we will be better positioned to evaluate our efforts to date and evaluate again conclude any alternative means for combating this persistent problem. Im grateful for the chairman two agreed to add this at this language and im grateful to the consumer and Government Affairs bureau for your ongoing efforts to stop the unlawful practice. In this order as well as numbers on the do not originate list. Typically calls from such numbers are from bad actors attempting to scam consumers and i greet these calls should be blocked under appropriate circumstances. At the same time, ive heard concerns that blocking is what i call a false positives. The judgment businesses offering legal products and services to authorized consumers moreover companies had reported that it can be difficult and timeconsuming to dispute and remove inappropriate blocks. Someone will say snidely that is just too bad that they are being blocked but real people will be hurt. Consider the cases of legal robo calls. Schools contacting parents or guardians when the children are missing or Energy Companies alerting the community that a catastrophe has subsided. They did not include the legitimate and retail conference. Where they take affirmative steps to avoid certain calls the order assumes that all Consumers Want to be blocked. Im troubled by such paternalism. It is not to prevent present citizens from themselves. It will need to be revisited at some point. The sanctioning of widespread blockade and without adequate means to challenge false positives. To add a notice seeking comment on a process for legitimate companies to resolve the Call Blocking disputes. Encouraged providers to work with companies and im assured that they are working in good faith after all as the order makes clear it is a violation of federal law to block legitimate calls. Nonetheless, the record and experiences have shown to date that it is already happening to have a clear process in faith. And avoiding the need for businesses to file complaints at the sec. I will vote to approve. As my colleagues may recall in september my cell phone rang in the middle of my open meeting. I tried to play it off but my colleagues were enough kind enough to call me out on it. Not surprisingly when i looked at the number after the meeting they can also be malicious. Take for example irs scheme calls. They will spoof an irs phone number so that it appears in the victims caller idaho. That is coming from the irs. And then the apostle attempt to defraud the victim at that point. We take action to combat these types of legal robo calls. Entities like the irs have phone numbers that are never used to make outbound calls can request that calls be blocked in order to prevent spoofing. From unassigned numbers no subscriber can originate a call. We also make clear that the rules we are adopting today do not encourage that. Todays actions we have heard is not a silver bullet. Its a welcome part of the commissions new and much broader effort to address the problem of illegal robo calls. Indeed i am glad that this year in 2017 the commission elevated the calls to our top enforcement priority. Combating them will require action on many fronts. Two industry and stakeholder engagement. I support the commissions efforts in all of these areas. I want to thank the staff in the consumer and Governmental Affairs bureau for the work on this item. A family sits down to dinner. Two parents to kids. Two jobs. In too little time in the day time around the table is special. It is sacred. It is a reprieve from the unrelenting chaos of everyday life. I know it will because this is true for my family and so some of the others. But night after night our family bliss is interrupted by rachel from cardmember services. Someone claiming to be from the irs. Or some distant voice. Or Something Else i do not want. I dont think my Family Experience is all that unusual. I think my experience is actually incredibly common and in fact this agency has the numbers to prove it. Year in and year out. They are the largest single category of consumer complaints at the fcc. By one count there were 2. 5 billion robo calls in the United States last month. That means more than 4700 robo calls have been made since i started talking about it a minute ago. It is a good thing that this agency is taking action and making these a priority. Support todays action and allow them to block calls from invalid unallocated and unassigned numbers. When they ask for the never to be blocked. I certainly hope so. But lets be honest this is a tepid stuff. My blood boils when my family hears the robo calls. That is why the fcc needs to do more than what we do here today. What we do here today has a real flop. The Agency Offers carriers of the ability to limit calls from what are likely to be fraudulent actors we fail to prevent them from charging consumers for the service. So this is the kicker. They extensively reduce robo calls but that you and i can pay for the privilege. If he ask me that is ridiculous. Its an insult to consumers who are fed up with these nuisance calls so on this aspect of todays decision i dissent. Thank you commissioner. It remains the number one category of consumer complaints to the federal communications commission. As chairman i have repeatedly made clear that the sec top Consumer Protection priority is pursuing the score. It is one more step towards fulfilling that commitment. Todays actions we give consumers new tools to protect themselves such as a do not originate list and unassigned number blocks. And portly, we do so without piling more ineffective or inappropriate regulations upon industry. Instead we are providing relief from fec fcc rules. I think my colleagues for their comments on this item and for joining me in this bipartisan endeavor. Make no mistake this is not the end of her efforts. We will need to do more and we well. But we are building a strong foundations for fighting those illegal robo calls for today and in the days to come. For the consumer and Governmental Affairs bureau. The planning analysis and the office of Communications Business opportunities. With that we will proceed to a vote on the item. The Wireless Telecommunications bureau and the office of engineering and technology. It is entitled special band about 24 gigahertz for mobile Data Services and donald rockdale chief of the bureau will give the introduction. Thank you, madam secretary. Mr. Stockdale, whenever youre ready the floor charts. Good afternoon mr. Chairman and commissioners. It is my pleasure introduced the spectrum frontiers item which continues our effort to make highfrequency bands available for broadband and other uses. This item would maintain the spectrum allocations and the flexible framework the Commission Adopted in the 2016 report and order and would make available an additional 1. 7 gigahertz of millimeterwave spectrum for flexible terrestrial wireless use under similar rules. It also take steps to provide or to maintain access to millimeterwave spectrum for satellite and unlicensed uses. After use became the first country in the world to make these bands available for 5g and other Wireless Services, we have seen tremendous interest and investment in these bands. We hope to build on that success by making additional spectrum available, expanding our flexible framework, and eliminating burdensome regulatory requirements. The flexible Market Driven approach we are pursuing in these bands will help to ensure continued United States leadership and innovation in 5g. I am joined at the table by julie knapp, chief of the office of engineering and technology, tom sullivan, chief of the International Bureau, blaze, chief of the Broadband Division of the Wireless Bureau, michael, deputy chief of the oed, hosea albuquerque, chief of the satellite division, and simon banyai, Broadband Division. In addition to the people at the table i would like to think the broader project team in wireless, a lychee and ib for the work on this item, as well as the staff of the Public Safety bureau, Enforcement Bureau, and office of general counsel for the thoughtful contributions. Simon will present his item. Good morning, mr. Chairman and commissioners. The spectrum front your second report and order second for the notice of proposed rulemaking order on reconsideration and memorandum opinion order consider for your consideration to take steps to pistol grip access to my quick spectrum for 5g deployment and other uses. Specifically, the item would make an additional 1. 7 gigahertz spectrum available for 5g deployment under the rules. This would be in addition to the nearly four ghz of licensed upper microwave spectrum the commission made available for 5g uses in the 28, 37 and three night gigahertz gigahertz bands in the first report and order. The item would make 70 megahertz available for flexible use in the 24. 25 gigahertz band i. E. 24 gigahertz band. The item six, on adding an operability requirement similar to the operability requirements the Commission Adopted. In the 47 gigahertz band which spans from 47. 248. 2 gigahertz and is note income operation guide would make one gigahertz spectrum available. Both bands would be licensed on the Geographic Area basis using partial economic areas. The item would maintain the rod broad flexibility of satellite systems to operate in the 4042 gigahertz, and 48. 250. 2 gigahertz bands. For the 28 ghz, 37 and 39 ghz band the item would be certain restrictions on satellite earth stations citing in smaller markets while maintaining the use of these bands for for 5g. The item addresses of the uses of upper microwave spectrum the unlicensed mobile devices. It would adopt rules to allow unlicensed operation on board most aircraft in t

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