NEWS Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, D. C. 20554 This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action. See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974). News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: October 15, 2008 Robert Kenny 202-418-2668 Email: Robert.Kenny@fcc.gov FCC ANNOUNCES TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR NOVEMBER 4TH OPEN MEETING Washington, D.C. – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin J. Martin has circulated the following items for consideration by his fellow FCC Commissioners as part of the tentative agenda for the next open meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2008: Intercarrier Compensation and Universal Service Program Reform · A Report and Order, Order on Remand, and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing the comprehensive reform of intercarrier compensation and universal service. Spectrum Licensing · An Order addressing the Auction 73 applications of Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless and Union Telephone Company. Mergers · A Memorandum Opinion and Order addressing the applications filed by Atlantis Holdings and Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless for approval of the transfer of control of licenses, authorizations and leasing arrangements through the transfer of control of subsidiaries and partnerships controlled by ALLTEL. · A Memorandum Opinion and Order addressing the applications filed by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire for approval of the transfer of control of licenses, authorizations and leasing arrangements held by Sprint Nextel and its subsidiaries to New Clearwire. Television White Spaces · A Second Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order addressing unlicensed operation in the television broadcast bands. Digital Television · An Order adopting rules for the use of distributed transmission system (“DTS”) technologies in the digital television service. Closed Captioning/Digital Programming · An Order addressing the closed captioning of digital programming and several other closed captioning issues. Topics selected for open meeting agendas are made public and posted on the Commission’s website approximately three weeks prior to the Commission’s next monthly meeting. The Commission will continue to issue a public notice of the “Commission Meeting Agenda” one week before the meeting and announce at that time the items that are scheduled for the agenda. -FCC- News and information about the Federal Communications Commission is available at www.fcc.gov.