FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for August 2023 Open Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the 2023 August Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 3, 2023:

• Advancing Understanding of Non-Federal Spectrum Usage: The FCC will consider a Notice of Inquiry that would initiate a technical inquiry into how to obtain more sophisticated knowledge of real-time non-Federal spectrum usage—and how the FCC could take advantage of modern capabilities for doing so in a cost-effective, accurate, scalable, and actionable manner.
• Updating Digital FM Radio Service: The FCC will consider an Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on proposed changes to the methodology used to determine maximum power levels for digital FM broadcast stations and to the process for authorizing digital transmissions at different power levels on the upper and lower digital sidebands.
• Affordable Connectivity Program High-Cost Benefit: The FCC will consider a Sixth Report and Order which would implement the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) high-cost area benefit, providing a discount of up to $75 per month for broadband services provided in qualifying high-cost areas, by participating ACP providers.
• Enforcement Bureau Action: The FCC will consider an enforcement action.