Aint s Saint Andrews and rick snyder in michigan at the community college, saturday night at 8 00 on cspan and cspan. Org. The federal Commission Voted 21 to start the process of repealing regulations on Internet Service providers known as Net Neutrality rules. The repeal would allow providers like verizon and comcast to slow tract to some websites and apps. Well show you that two hour public hearing from the start. Welcome, to the 2017 open hearing. Madame secretary, will you please introduce your agenda this morning. Thank you, good morning to you. You will hear a presentation and six items for your consideration. Final report on its investigation into the faulty 911 outage at t mobility experience on march 8th, 2017. Second, you will consider a proposal of reducing regulatory on the three types of fixed Satellite Service of earth stations authorize to transmit files in motion. Vehicle mounted and earth stations and earth stations aboard aircraft. Third you will consider a report order that would amend of the personal Radio Services located in part of 95 of the commissions rules in order to address two petitions for rule making, update and modernized and various rules to reflect current use and technologies. Removing out dated and regulatory requirements and reorganizing the rules to make them easy to understand. Fourth, you will consider a Public Notice that would launch a review of the Commission Rules applicable to immediate entities and seek comments on what rules should be modified or repealed. Fifth, you will consider a notice of proposed rule making thatll propose to eliminate commissions main studio rules. Based on attentive finding that the rules are out dated and unnecessarily burden some for broadcast stations. Sixth, you will consider a notice of proposed rule making thatll proposed to restore the internet to a light touch and Regulatory Framework by classifying broad band Internet Service as an Information Service and by seeking comments on the existing rules, government Internet Service provider practices. Seventh, you will consider a notice of proposed rule making that proposes to eliminate a rule requiring rule, Service Providers. Usf support to impose higher, minimum monthly rates on their customers than the rates paid by some of their urban counter parts or lose some uss support. The commission will consider a related order thatll freeze the current rate. This is your agenda for today. Please note the Consent Agenda listed in commission may 2017 Sunshine Notice have been deleted from todays agenda. Acting chief of the homeland skur security and bureau thank you madame secretary and if you are ready, please proceed. Good morning. One of the commissions fundamental property is to promote through the use of services. Ensuring the public has reliable access to 911 is essential to that mission. Thats why understanding the causes of 911 outages with a view towards mitigating the future of 911 averages is one of the commissions most important task. On march 8th, 2017, at t experiencing nationwide 911 outages of voice over lte, it is a technology that at t uses to transfer voice calls over to the network. A approximately 12,600 callers were not able to reach 911 over a five hour period. This was one of the largest 911 outages ever reported to the commission. The chairman conduct an investigation. Today the bureau presents its findings. With me today from the Public Safety and homeland bureau are our electronic engineer, james wylie, attorney advise and megan henley from the Bureau Communications reliability division. I would like to thank staffs with their hard work on this report as well as other bureaus in offices that contributed. Mr. Wylie will present the report. Thank you, lisa. Good morning chairman and commissioners. As lisa notes, the Bureau Report presents the findings of the investigation of the outage of 911 callings. The failure that caused this outage occurred entirely within at t network. In order to route 911 calls to the appropriate call center, at t remains connections with sub contractors, comcast and west. These sub contractors providing with call routing information. Since these connections are critical to 911 service, at t 911 network is programmed to reject all in coming connections except those originating from trusting ip addresses. March 8th, at t broke their connections. The ip addresses sending 911 information to at t. This mix match resulted in a lost of connectivity between at t and contact. At t was not able to receive 911 calls and could not route those 911 calls to the appropriate 11 call center. At t rerouted this call to a backup call center. The backup call center drops the majority of 911 calls that were received. When at t lost connectivity to contact, the network responded as program by resetting the pads between contact and at t. This reset failed to restore at ts connectivity to contact because the root cause of the problem of the mix match of the ip addresses have not been fixed. It prevented at t receiving calls from west while the pads were being reset. The outage affected nearly all 911 calls on at t faulty netw k network. Both the ip address that cause the outage and the Network Configuration that exacerbated likely could have been avoided had at t implemented liability of best practices with respect to critical 911 assets. At t reports that it has fix the issues that caused the march 8th outage and case studies for 911 network liability. Among Lessons Learned from the march 8th outage to promote federal awareness. The bureau plans to release a Public Notice reminding companies of best practices and their importance. Not all calls center receiving notification. Timely and effective outage notification is critical. Accordingingly ensuring consumers know how to best Reach Services when 911 is unavailable. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Wiley. Well turn to comments from the ben. As demonstrated in this report. It is vital that we ensure the systems supporting our nation 911 services are reliable and resilience. The steps at t proposes to take to prevent future 911 outages in its network are allowable and necessary. Other industry carriers have taken the necessary steps to ensure their Network Infrastructure are sound but they are working implement the Network Reliability practices developed by the communications reliability. We may have forgotten i want to thank you the chairman for initiating this investigation on the hills of the outage as well as lisa fowlkes for the commendable work on this report i just had a question. How will the mixed match addresses, how did that occur . Is that human error . So there was a late mixed match in the provisioning system that at t uses to assign ip addresses to its network an and when at t made an unrelated network change, it resulted in that mixed match and being input in the network and thats what broke at t in the contact thank you, chair. On march 8th. They could not reach Emergency Services because of nationwide outage as we heard of at t faulty 911 network. They heard fast busy signals and end less 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 addressed the Public Safety and Homeland Security burreau to investigate. These findings are based on data, outage reporting system and numerous interviews. Officials from at t and sub contractors with including the office of United Communications here in washington, d. C. These findings are highly instructed. Most importantly refas we heard from mr. Wiley, this can be prevented. It was mistakes made by at t. There was shortfalls in operational redundancy. This outage would have had much less impact. The cause of the outage could have been and addressed with periodic autoddits of the netwo. The good news is at t has address these vulnerabilities that led to the outage. It is exceedingly unlikely that this outage would occur. Going forward like mr. Clyburn and i urge every carrier to assess to work with the bureau and explore ways to improve notifications to consumers when 911 outages occurreoccu occur. We cannot turn back time and undo this but by learning the right information from it, well reduce the odds of such an outage wont happen again. I, too, and the colleagues want to thank the staff for their speeds and tenacity. I would like to thank michelle connerly and john healy and megan henry and Nicole Mcginnis for your tire less efforts to secure the safety of all americans. If you can please announce the next item on todays agenda. The next item on your agenda will be presented by the International Bureau. It is entitled amount in parts of 2 and 25 to facilitate the youth of earthations in motion and communicating with orbit space station and Frequency Bands allocated to the fix satellite surface, our acting chief of the bureau will give the introduction. Thank you, madame secretary. When you are ready, please proceed. Thank you. Good morning mr. Chairman and commissioners. The International Bureau is pleased to present you this of this proposed rule making. It is an exciting time. One of the Fastest Growing segment is earth station providing satellite Broad Band Services on ships and aircrafts and vehicles. Earth stations and motions or esims. The notice examines the rules governing of the licensin licensing first, the notice proposes to consolidate the three types of esims into a single regulatory category. This harmonization would streamline our rule. Second, most significantly t notice proposes to extend the rules for esims. These proposals if adopted will facilitate the licensing and deployment of our station in this growing market. I am joined at the table by troy tanner, department chief of the International Bureau. Jennifer gilson, our assistant chief, chip fleming, chief engineer and cindy spears and attorney adviser. I would like to acknowledge the outstanding contributions on this item. Paul blaze and joe hill as well as colleagues from tele Communication Bureau. Cindy will present the item. Thank you, good morning mr. Chairman and commissioners. It includes stations on vessels, vehicles and aircraft. The commissions current role providing for blanket sciencing for operations of these earth stations communicating with cspan or geo stationary in the satellite. The regulation of these earth station havs from developed in separate but over lapping lapping vehicles mounted stations or emes. As initial matter, the changes we proposed would integrate the rules governing of the different categories, operating in different frequency. These changes would reduce redundancy and increasing in this growing market. The mprmc kmecomments on the proposal this section would be designated section 25. 228. Consolidated esims rule would be in the kk band. Several company havies are appl and received the licensing of kk band. The licenses were granted with waivers of the table of frequency and the commissions k band plan. Specifically of the amended footnote to the table would state Frequency Band defining of conventional k band. Finally the item includes proposals eliminating reputations and unnecessary rules. The mprm sees referring to provisions of existing rules that apply to other gso or fss statio stations. It eliminates unnecessary esims rules. Requiring a precise pointing of earth station and further, the mprmprm the International Bureau recommends the proposed rules making and requesting privileges for technical and confirming e d edits. Thank you. In the gso fix Satellite Service. Esims including our station, including Internet Access to cruise ships and merchant ships and u. S. Navy and vessels among others. Earth station avoids aircraft. Vehicle mounted earth stations providing broad band service to land vehicle and perhaps, one day your connected car. Of the objective of this proceedings of the facilitating deployment of esims. A goal i like we can all share. I like forward to reviewing the record that develops in this proceeding and thank the staff of the International Bureau for your hard work and i would like to thank my friend cindy for presenting the item. Thank you. I appreciate all the efforts going into the streamliner on esims and i will put the rest of my statement in the record. Thank you commissioners. It has identical rules for satellite stations on land vehicles. It also has almost identical rules for satellite stations on aircraft. Having three sets of rules is unnecessarily. We are proposing to combine these three rule collections into one. With an acronym, some speculated as to what popular references i might try to tie in here. I will however not go so far as to refer to the simulation of computer games. I will not mention the quarterback will sims, i will not go far to super actress molly sims. You can think of them as infrastructure connected to these Satellite Network that have the potential Broad Band Services that are in places that are hard to serve such as remote land masses and bering sea. It will make it easier for Satellite Companies to offer customers additional servicing. Some, this proposal meets two of the key goals of this commission, reducing unnecessary red tape and enabling the private sector as mr. Sullivan pointed out of a fast growing in the industry to innovate. Many thanks to all of those who work on this item. Thanks to everyone who worked on this item. Tom sullivan and troy tanner in the bureau, michael ha and the office of engineering and technology. Matt pearl and paul powell and the wireless Communication Bureau, and the office of general counsel. All of your efforts are appreciated. Now, well proceed to the voting of the item. Aye. Aye. Thank you to the National Bureau and madame secretary, if you can announce the next item on the agenda. Thank you, next item is wireless teleCommunication Bureau. Personal Radio Services for rule making for acting chief of the bureau giving the introduction. When ever you are ready. Thank you, mr. Chairman and commissioners. Good morning. This Communication Bureau is pleased to present this order that updates and modernizes the radio service. It allows for a variety of devices that the public can purchase and operate for personal communication needs without having to go through a Service Provider and usually having to get to fcc license. Examples of these devices cover common and simple uses like walkietalkies and hearing assistant devices and radios. These devices include more compl complex usage like medical implant devices and personal locater beacons. In addition to the staff seated at the table, i would like to thank our team in the Mobility Division for their hard work of the item and for the officer of engineering. Tom will present the item. Breaker breaker, your 1020. Not everyone remembers the day before cell phones some of us still remember what this early form of cases well, cb, radio is still a vibrant way for many to communicate. There is only one of the Mini Services these devices generally uses low power translators and communicating over shared radio frequencies and using a list before talking etiquette before sharing to these channels. Radio control toys and plains and hearing assisted devices of the cd radios. These Services Also cover more complex and life savings applications like medical devices and personal locater beacons. In this proceeding, we did a review because many are decades old. Before you, it will remove any such out dated requirements and updating the rule of reflecting moderate usage of services. It would streamline and reorganize the rules to make it easier to find information and translate them to plain language format to make the rules easier to read and understand. For example, to increase the flexible use of general motor service, and Family Radio Service of mrs, of the 460 megaspan, allowing a lot of additional channels by using channels. It would increase the power from 2 watt from the half watt. It would modernize rules to allow our data options such as gps location data and short Text Messages which is permitted from frs from the same channel. These changes will allow many existing radios that previously hired a license to continue to be used under frs where no license is required. Having to get a license for many thousands of americans. To reduce the burden on gmrs licensees. To increase the flexibility use of cd radio, the draft clarifies o f the hand free headset of usage. It would remove out dated requirements on cb radios of manufacturing. And serial number being engraved on cbs radio to reflect how cb radios evolved over the decades. The draft