Howard Buskirk

Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today! AT&T said the commission should reject Verizon’s proposal to expand the rule against prohibited communications to include the lower C band. Two adjacent spectrum bands that share similar technical and service rules aren't “related” for purposes of the quiet period, the carrier argued.

Stankey said there are “going to be places where satellite is going to come in and innovate” and “use cases where it will be very well suited.” AT&T has been building the infrastructure needed to meet customer expectations, which “continue to rise every year,” he said. Satellite companies have been talking about ways they could compete with terrestrial wireless, such as through the use of femtocells to supplement coverage from space (see 2609030035).

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said when it was approved that the FNPRM was aimed at preventing “bad actors from accessing the network in the first place.” Reply comments were due this week in docket 17-59. Consumer Reports said it “strongly supports” FCC efforts to strengthen the KYUP rules and also believes the commission “should close loopholes” in the Stir/Shaken framework.