Chairman Pai and the FCC last week continued their campaign of revamping FCC rules, this time by adopting a Report and Order tackling the Commission’s Commercial Mobile Radio Services (CMRS). The Order deletes Sections 20.7 and 20.9 of the Commission’s rules and is intended to generally eliminate an “outdated and incomplete list of certain services” … Continue Reading
Back in February the FCC released its new E911 standards designed to improve E911 location capability. As we reported in March, most of those new standards were to take effect in April … except for a small handful that happened to be “information collections” and thus subject to the hilariously named Paperwork Reduction Act. Thanks … Continue Reading
In the wake of an impressively cooperative response to the Commission's 2014 proposals, the FCC has established a new set of E911 location standards.… Continue Reading
Last April the Commission mandated automatic data-roaming among facilities-based providers of commercial mobile data service. The complaint process that was included in the FCC's order has now taken effect.… Continue Reading
In a widely anticipated move, the FCC has mandated that all facilities-based providers of "commercial mobile data service" make available automatic data roaming to other such providers - with some important exceptions.… Continue Reading