January 2024 Open Meeting Agenda

Happy new year! In the spirit of wishing everyone a safe and healthy new year, we are kicking off 2024 with a monthly open meeting that features a pair of items from our Public Safety Bureau. Here’s everything we have lined up for our January agenda.

• We’re improving network resilience during emergencies. The FCC will consider rules to transition the current voluntary outage reporting structure to a mandatory structure for certain communications providers, as well as proposals to expand reporting from other providers.
• We’re dramatically reducing mis-routed 911 calls. The FCC will consider rules requiring the use of more precise location-based information from cellphones, instead of cell towers, to route 911 calls and texts where they need to go and improve emergency response times.
• We’re mitigating the risks of orbital debris to space innovation. The FCC will consider an Order that provides clarity and guidance to satellite operators on compliance with our orbital debris rules.
• We’re enabling creative new uses of underutilized airwaves. The FCC  will consider updates to our rules for the so-called 70/80/90 GHz bands that would facilitate broadband access on ships and aircrafts, in addition to backhaul service for 5G.
• We will consider an adjudicatory matter from our Media Bureau.
• We will also consider five items from our Enforcement Bureau.