Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
The sec held an open meeting and voted on several issues flgt roboCall Blocking regulations, media ownership rules. Held in washington dc. This is four hours. Good morning. Welcome to the november 201 meeting of the federal communication commission. Madame secretary, announce the agenda for the morning. Thank you chairman. Good morning. For todays meeting you will hear eight items for consideration. First you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of row bow calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make out going calls. It would prohibit Voice Service providers from blocking 911 calls urpd the rules and encourage Voice Service providers to provide a mechanism to allow subscribers who le jet mat calls are in order to stop such blocking and clarify providers may exclude blocked calls under these rules from their call completion report. Second you will consider a report a second repo
Good morning. Welcome to the november 201 meeting of the federal communication commission. Madame secretary, announce the agenda for the morning. Thank you chairman. Good morning. For todays meeting you will hear eight items for consideration. First you will consider a report in order that would expressly authorize Voice Service providers to block certain types of row bow calls that falsely appear to be from telephone numbers that do not or cannot make out going calls. It would prohibit Voice Service providers from blocking 911 calls urpd the rules and encourage Voice Service providers to provide a mechanism to allow subscribers who le jet mat calls are in order to stop such blocking and clarify providers may exclude blocked calls under these rules from their call completion report. Second you will consider a report a second report in order and second further notice of proposed rule making order on reconsideration and memorandum opinion in order that would make available 1,700 megahert
Morning, commissioners. You will hear six items for your consideration and one presentation. First, you will receive a preliminary report from the Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau on its investigation into the false Emergency Alert that occurred in awaii on january 13, 2018. Second, you will consider a second report and order and on recon to enhance emergency wireless alerts and the geographic accuracy of these alerts. Third, an order addressing the remaining issues raised challenging the commissions order connecting the auction 903 in which Service Providers will compete to receive support up to 1. 98 to offer voice and Broadband Service in High Cost Service areas. Fourth, you will consider a Public Notice establishing procedures for the connect america funds phase two auction which will award up to 1. 98 billion over 10 years that commit to offer voice and Broadband Services to fixed locations in unserved high cost areas. Fifth, you will consider an order to accomplish an o
Him or not, or believe that he could fulfill that were not, they were prepared to take a chance. Sunday eastern on q a. Now to hearing on the nations Emergency Alert system. Fcc officials and communication Industry Leaders testified before the Senate Conference irons and transportation committee. They discussed the false alarms statewide Emergency Alert in hawaii earlier this month. This hearing is almost 2 hours. Good morning and welcome to these hearings on our countrys Emergency Alert system. I hope to hear from our panel about whats working , whats not and what we can do to better prevent alerts like we saw with the hallway Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Sharing state and local governments the safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is critical. Alerts not only create an unnecessary panic but undermine the integrity of the alert system learning to distrust and confusion. What happened in hawaii must be addressed to ensure an incident like th