FCC's July 2 Meeting Agenda

There are three items on the FCC's agenda for it's July 2 meeting which is likely to be chaired by the FCC's new chairman, Julius Genachowski. The FCC will consider: 1) a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to allocate spectrum and establish service and technical rules for the operation of Medical Body Area Networks to monitor patients' physiological data; 2) a Report and Order concerning changes in the FM translator rules to allow AM broadcast stations to rebroadcast their signals on eligible FM translator stations; and 3) a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing whether to provide licensees with authority to operate on channels with bandwidths up to 30 megahertz in the Upper 6 GHz band and whether to extend conditional authority to two additional channel pairs in the 23 GHz band, as well as an Order addressing a related waiver request.