And charging extra for socalled fast lanes to any websites or apps. News conferences by the individual fcc commissioners followed the session [inaudible discussion] good morning. Welcome to the may 2017 open meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Please introduce our agenda this morning. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you and good morning, commissioners. For todays meeting youll hear a presentation and six items for your consideration. First, you will hear a presentation on the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureaus final report on its investigation into the faulty 911 outage at t mobility experiences march 8, 2017. Second youll consider a notice of proposed rulemaking that would both facilitate deployment of and russ regulatory burdens on three times of fixed Satellite Service earth stations authorized to transmit while inr motion. Earth stations on vessels, vehicle mounted earth stations and earth stations aboard aircraft. Third, you will consider a report and order that would amend provisions of the personal Radio Services located in part 95 of the commissions rules in order to address two petitions for rulemaking, update andking modernize various rules to reflect current technologies, remove outdated regulatory requirements and organize rules to make them easier to read and understand. Fourth youll consider a Public Notice that two launch review of the commissions rules applicable to media entities ani seeks comment on what rules should be modified or epeeled. Fifth, youll consider a notice of proposed rulemaking that would propose to he name the commissions main studio rule based on a tentative finding thats rule is now outdated and unnecessarily burdensome for broadcast stations. Sixth, you will consider a notice of proposed rulemaking that will propose to restore the internet to a light touch Regulatory Framework by classifying Broadband InternetAccess Service as an Information Service and by seeking comment on the existing rules governing Internet Service provider practices. Id seventh, you will consider a notice of proposed rulemaking that proposes to eliminate a rule requiring rule telecommunication Service Providers receiving usf support pr item pose higher minimum monthly rates on their customers than the rates paid by some of their urban court counterparts ofot lose some usf support. The commission will consider a related order that would freeze the current rate. This is your agenda for today. Please note the Consent Agenda listed in the commissions may 2017 Sunshine Notice has been deleted from todays agenda. First, leak a voces, active chief to the Public Safety and Homeland Security buryover we reel lee this final report on the investigation into the faulty 911 outage at t mobility experienced march 8, 2017. Thank you, madam sect. Good morning, are ine chairman, commissioner clyburn, commissioner oreilly. One of the commissions fundamental responsibilities is to promote the safe of life and property through the use of communications services. Ensuring that the public has rely able access to 911 is central to that mission. That is why understanding the causes of 911 outages with a view towards preventing and mitigating the effects effects e 911 outages is one of to commissions where most important tasks. On march 8, 2017, at t mobility experienced a nationwide 911 outage affects customers in its voice over lte service. Voiceover lte is the technology atth use to transmit calls ofse the 4glte net on marry 8, 12,006 hub unique callers were unable to reach 911 over a fivehour period. This was one of the largest 911 outages ever reported to the commission. Chairman pai ordered an investigation. Y today the bureau presents its pt findings. With me today from the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau is julia tu, electronics engineer, james whiley, attorney advisor, and megan henry, law clerk from Cyber Security division. We thank the bureaus and offices that contributed. Mr. Wiley will present the report. Thank you. Good morning, chairman pa and i commissioners. As lisa notes, the bureaus report presents the findings of its investigation into theoutage that interrupted faulty 911 calling for five hours on march 8, 2017. The failures that caused the outage occurred entirely within ats network. In order to route 911 calls to the appropriate call centers, at t maintains connections with subcontractors, compact and west. These subcontractors provide at t with 911 call routing information. Since these connections are critical to 911 service,ec at ts 911 network is programmed to reject all incoming connections except those originating from trustedct ip addresses. On march 8, at t unintentionally broke its connection tocome tech and initiated a Network Change that results in the a mismatch chen the twisted set of inaces the in the at t network and the ip addresses used to send the call routing information to at t. This mismatch resulted in a loss of connectivity between at t and com tech. At t was not able to receive routing information and could not automatically route the 911 calls to the appropriate 911 call center. Instead, at t rerouted those calls to a backup call center for manual processing. But the backup call center dropped the majority of 911ro calls it received. When at t lost connectivity to com tech the network responded by resetting the paths between com tech and at t. This reset failed to restored connectivity bass the root cause of the problem, the mismatched ip addresses, had not been fixed. Further, it preventedss from receiving 911 call routing information from west while the paths were being reset because com tech and west shared agents to at ts 911 network. The outage affected nearly all 911 calls on at ts network. Both the ip address mitch match that caused the outage and the Network Configuration issue that exacerbated it likely could have been avoided had at ted implemented Network Reliability best practices with respect toto critical 911 Network Asset ise while at t reports it has fixeds the issues that caused the march 8th outage, this event offers an illuminate case study for 911 Network Reliability. Among the Lessons Learned from the outage is the need for further outreach to industry to promote better air wareness and understanding of network reliable best practices. Cardboard leg the bureau plans to release a Public Notice reminding Companies Best practices and their importance. In addition the march 8th 8th outage demonstrates the need for close coordination between. When 911 service sales, call centers play a Critical Role in advising communities of alternative ways to reach help. While at t, com tech and west made efforts to notify customers apparently not all call centers received notification. Furthermore, some 911 call centers reported the notifications were sent too late and were insufficiently informative. Timely and effective outage notification is critical to protecting Public Safety. Accordingly, the bureau recommends working with stakeholders, including industry and 911 call centers to ensure that consumers know how to best reach Emergency Services when 911 is unavailable. The group plans to convene consumer groups, Public Safety entities entities entities entities and participate in a workshop to develop recommendations for improving Situational Awareness during 911 outages. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Wiley. Well now turn to comments from the bench, starting with commissioner clyburn. Isth it is vital we ebb sure that the simms supporting our nations 911 services are both reliable and resilient. The steps at t proposes to take to prevent future 911 outages in this network in its network, are laudible and necessary. It is my sincere hope, however, that other industry carriers have taken the necessary steps to ensure their 911 Network Infrastructures are sound, but they are working to implement the voluntary networkng reliability best practices developed by the Communications Security reliability and interoperatability council. We might have forgotten. I want to thank chairman pai for quickly initiating the investigation on the heels ofn the outage as well as lisa folk the team for the commendable work on this final report. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you. I hads a question. You has mismatched addresses. How did that otour and is that human error or did they get mismatched. There was a latent mismatch in the provisioning system that at t uses to assign ip dresses to its network and to its white list of trusted ip addresses. When at t made an unrelated Network Change it resulted in that latent mismatch being input into the live network, and that is what broke at ts connectivity to com tec. Thank you, chair. Thank you. On march 8, 12,539 meshes who were at t customers trade to call 911. But they couldnt reach Emergency Services because of a nationwide outage we heard of the 911 network. They placed that call, they heard fast busy signals, endless ringing or silence. This was unacceptable. In times of trouble, americans who are in need, need to be able to reach americans who can help. Thats why as soon as this outage occurred i immediately directed the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau to investigate. Today as you have heard the bureau has delivered a thorough fact, based report of findings. These findings are based on data derived from the fccs Network Outage reporting system and several affected Public Safety answering points or psrps, including the office of unite communications here in washington, dc. The findings are highly instructive. Most importantly, as we heard from mr. Whiley, this outage could have been prevented. It was a result of mistakes made by at t. There were shortfalls in operational redone den sis, Risk Assessment and stake holder and consume outreach. Had at t followed certain breast best practices, security, reliable, and interoperable counsel this outage would have been less impact and could have been addressed with periodic audits of network. Thats the bad news. The good news is that at t has now addressed the vulnerabilities that led to this outage, and had these safeguards been in place on marsh 8 it is unlikely this outage would have occurred. Going forward, i urge every carrier to address similar vulnerabilities and their networks. Er i ask industry, and consumer groups to work with the bureau to explore ways to improveh notifications to psaps and consumers when 911 outages occur women cant turn back time and undo this outage but by learning the right lessons we can, we must, and we will reduce the odds of such an outage happening again. I, too like my colleague us, want to thank the bureau staff for expertise, speed and ten nagsty they brought to bear on this task. I comment at t for cooperating if the be bureau to help us get to the bottom of this outage. In particular id like to think michael, a shill, michelle,and lisa, jeff, john, megan, nikole, jerry, julia, and james wiley of the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau for your tireless efforts to secure the safety of all americans. Le with that madam sect, if you could please announce the next item on the agenda. Mr. Chairman and commissions the next item will be presented by the International Bureau. It is entireled amendment of part 2 and 25 of the biggse rules to facilitated the use of earth stations in motion, communicating with geostationary orbit space stations and in frequency bands allocated toto fixed Satellite Service and Thomas Sullivan will give the introduction. A mouthful. Thank you, madam sect. Re please proceed. Good morning mr. Chairman and commissioner. The International Bureau is very pleased to present you with the notice of proposed rulemaking. An exciting time for theed satellite industry and one of the Fastest Growing segments is earth stations providing Satellite Broadband Services on ships, aircraft and vehicles. Collectively known as earth stations in motion, or esims. The notice examines the rules governing the licensing and operation oses esims and had two broad goals. Firs the notice proposes to consolidate the three times of esims into a single regulatory category. This harmonization wouldstreamline ruled for the entire segue satellite. Industry. The notice also proposed to eliminate unnecessary and outdated regulations. Second, and most significantly,. The notice proposes to extend the rules for esimms to portions of the conventional ka band. These proposals, if adopted, will facilitate the licensing and deployment of earth stations in this growing market. Im joined the table by troy tanner, deputy chief over the International Bureau, jennifer gillson, assistant chief, hose say albuquerque, chief on the satellite division, chip fleming, chief engineer, cindy spears attorney advise in the satellite policy branch and like to acknowledge the outstanding contributions on this item from other staff and be interimagine bury re, especially paul blake and joe hill and colleagues in the wire has Telecommunications Bureau. Office of engineering and technology, and the office of general council. Cindy will present the item. Thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman and commissioners. This draft notice of proposed rulemaking opens review of the commissions rules that govern the licensing and operation of earth stations in motion, esims, which includes earth stations on vessels, vehicles and aircraft. The commissions current rules provide authorize blanket licensing for operations of earth stations communicating with cband and kuband, geostationary orbit satelliteness the fixed Satellite Service. The regulation of these earth stations have developed in separate but overlapping proceedings, divided by the individual types. Organize stations on vessels, vehicle mounded earth stations and earth attentions aboardircrf aboardcraft. The changes we propose would integrate the rules governing the licensing and operation of the different categories of esims operating in different frequency bans. These changes would reduce rehundred dan si and increase efficiency in processing applications in this growing market. Currently, part 25 includes four different sections addressing operation of esingles with gso, fss satellites. The nprm vehicles comments to implement rules into the four sections into a consolidated esingles techna technical rule sex; the esims rule would included ka band. Several companies have appliedhe and received licenses to operate esims in the ka band. The license applications were processed on an ad hoc basis and the los angeless were grandded with waivers of the table of frequency of allocations and the commissions kaband plan. The nprh proposes amendmentsing a footnote so that ka band esims applications could be routinely processed. Specifically the amended footnote to the table would state that in the frequency band, conventional ka band, esims are an application of the fss and may be authorized to communicate with satellites in gso, fss on a primary basis. Finally, the item includes proposals to eliminate repetition and unnecessary rules. For example, the nprm seeks comment on eliminating certain repetitive esims rules by referring to provisions in existing rules that apply to other gsofss earth stations and also seeks comment on the proposal eliminate unnecessary rules. For example, proposed to pro eliminates rules requiring precise pointing or earth station antennas which are unnecessary in view of the wording of the rules restricting transmission toward adjacent satellites and further the mprm seeks rules on logging of data location which to the best of our knowledge has never been invoked. The international bury re represents doings of the notice of proposed rulemaking and requests editorial privileges for technical and conforming edits. Thank you for the presentation. Now comments from the bench, commissioner clyburn. Today the commission initiates a proceeding to harmannize and update rules the governing the licensing and operation of earth stations in motion or esims, and the gso o fixed Satellite Service. Esims includes earth station is on venezuelaings used to provide teem Communication Services, including enter it in dent to cruise ships, merchant ships and u. S. Navy vessels among other. Earth stations aboard everycraft which provide connectivity to commercial and private aircraft and vehicle mounded earth stations which provide Broadband Services to land vehicle and perhaps one day your connected car. An overarching objective of the proceeding is to facilitate deployment of esims and promote innovative and flexible use of t Satellite Technology to the benefit of consumer