Adjourned. Following the open meeting of the federal Communications Commission held a News Conference from its headquarters in washington, d. C. This press conference with fcc chair Jessica Rosenworcel and brendan carr runs just under 40 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. If folks could take their conversations to the lobby, we greatlyre appreciate it. Weto are about to get started wh the post conference and as you know we had a pretty lively and lengthy meeting so i would like to give the chair as much time as possible to answer questions for the reporters. With that i welcome the chair. Good afternoon. All right. Why dont we start with david. I wanted to ask about the effect [inaudible] could you please turn on your microphone. Can you speak to the current state [inaudible] under section 214 of the communications act, the fcc authorizes the provision of communications in the united states. We also have the authority to take away the authorization for providing service, and as youri k
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to november 2017 meeting of the federal communications commission. Madam secretary comeau should answer jennifer this morning. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you in good morning, commissioners. Todays video here it items for consideration. First youll consider a report and order that would expressly authorized Voice Service providers to block certain types of robocalls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls. It would prohibit Voice Service providers from blocking 911 calls under these rules including a mechanism to allow subscribers legitimate calls blocked in error to drop blocking and clarify that providers may exclude blocked calls under these rules from their call completion report. Second, you will consider a second report order and second for this country and further notice of rulemaking on consideration memorandum opinion and order that would make available 1700 megahert
The achairman ajit pai greeting witnesses as the meeting is set to get under way shortly. Well have live allday coverage here on cspan3. Welcome. December 2017 meeting of the federal Communications Commission. Madam secretary, turn the floor over to you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Good morning to you, and good morning commissioners. The purpose of the federal Communications Commission open meeting is for the commission to consider the matters that have been duly posted in accordance with the government and the sunshine act. As provided in the commissions rules, members of the public are invited to observe, which includes attending, listening, and taking notes, but does not include participating in the meeting, or addressing the commission. Actions that purposely interfere or attempt to interfere with the commencement or conduct of the meeting, or inhibit the audiences ability to observe or listen to the meeting, including attempts by audience members to address the commission while the m
Probably muchs better than i am at getting everyones attention so we can do that again if need be. Thank all of you again for coming. It is a terrific turnout. You know, earlier i welcomed our cspan audience. I want to welcome them again. We are grateful cspan is here. Aim sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here. We are glad all of you are here. The chairman knows i do this because he has been here before. Illustriousn photography i could go on and on and on about it. We have it in the brochure. For those of you that are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website. Fcc chairmans bio in it. Just stayed what chairmanhere knows, pie served as a commissioner. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . A monday, january 23. Three days after. He was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. This, withouty is going to the offices you can read about. I think it is important. He has served in all three branches of government, spent a lot of ti
To welcome them again. Were grateful that cspan is here. Im sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here, chairman pai, but were glad all of you, all of you are here. So in keeping chairman pai knows that i do this because hes been here before. Hes got an illustrious biography, i could go on and on and on about it, but weve got it in the brochure, for those of you who are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website, on the home page of the website. Its got fcc chairman ajit pais bio in it. So i commend that to you, but you know, i would just say, to state what everyone here knows, that chairman pai served as a commissioner prior to assuming the chairmanship of the fcc. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . It was on a monday, january 23rd, so about three days after. About three days, he was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. You know, what i will say about chairman pai is this, without going over each of the particular offices