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Date: 14 May 2023 18:55:50 -0400
From: "The Telecom Digest" <submissions@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Fcc Proposes More Than $8 Million In Fines
Fcc Proposes More Than $8 Million In Fines Against 22 Rural Digital
Opportunity Fund Applicants For Defaulting On Auction 904 Obligations
Defaults Impede Funding for New Rural Broadband Deployments
WASHINGTON, May 1, 2023—The Federal Communications Commission today
proposed $8,778,527.39 in fines against 22 applicants in the Rural
Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I Auction (Auction 904) for apparently
violating Commission requirements by defaulting on their bids between
May 3, 2022 and December 16, 2022. Two applicants also failed to
submit their audited financial paperwork, resulting in an additional
monetary liability. The FCC provided clear guidance in its rules and
notices on the monetary forfeitures associated with defaults in
Auction 904. The bid defaults prevented 2,994 census block groups in
31 states and an estimated 293,128 locations from receiving new
investments in broadband infrastructure.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-393039A1.pdf
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| Message-ID: <20230514232711.GA291792@telecomdigest.us>
Date: 14 May 2023 19:27:11 -0400
From: "The Telecom Digest" <submissions@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: FCC seeks Comments on Data Collection For Incarcerated
People’S Communications Services
FCC seeks Comments on Data Collection For Incarcerated People’S Communications
Services
Wireline Competition Bureau And Office Of Economics
And Analytics Seek Comment On Proposed 2023 Mandatory
Data Collection For Incarcerated People’S
Communications Services
Comment Date: 30 days after date of publication in the Federal
Register
Reply Comment Date: 45 days after date of publication in the Federal
Register
I. Introduction and Background
By this Public Notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB or Bureau)
and the Office of Economics and Analytics (OEA) (collectively,
WCB/OEA) seek comment on the contours and specific requirements of the
proposed 2023 Mandatory Data Collection for incarcerated people’s
communications services (IPCS). In issuing this Public Notice, we act
pursuant to the Commission’s directive so that it is able to implement
the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act of 2022
(Martha Wright-Reed Act or Act).
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-355A1.pdf
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| Message-ID: <20230514235429.GA291979@telecomdigest.us>
Date: 14 May 2023 19:54:29 -0400
From: "The Telecom Digest" <submissions@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Implementation of the National Suicide Hotline Improvement
Act
(This is from an FCC document disclosing "Ex Parte" communications
which are about current matters)
Implementation of the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of
2018, WC Docket No. 18-336
Dear Ms. Dortch:
On April 26, 2023, Shannon Scully and Jennifer Snow, National Alliance
on Mental Illness (NAMI), and the undersigned of Winning Strategies
Washington met with Michelle Sclater, Christi Shewman, Rachel Wehr,
and Heather Hendrickson, Federal Communications Commission
(FCC/Commission), Wireline Competition Bureau.
In our meeting, we discussed the Commission's current progress toward
ensuring the routing of calls to the nearest 988 call center based on
a callers physical location. Given the proliferation of wireless
devices, and increasing number of people relying on cell phones,
there is a need to rethink how to identify callers and connect them to
care.
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/104282924102423/1
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