Commission
Meeting Agenda
A Public Notice of the Federal Communications Commission
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October 22, 2015
DELETION OF AGENDA ITEMS FROM OCTOBER 22, 2015 OPEN MEETING
The following items have been deleted from the list of Agenda items scheduled for consideration 
at the Thursday, October 22, 2015, Open Meeting and previously listed in the Commission’s 
Notice of October 15, 2015.  These items have been adopted by the Commission.
ITEM NO. BUREAU SUBJECT
3 WIRELESS TELE-
COMMUNICATIONS
TITLE:  Expanding the Economic and Innovation 
Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive 
Auctions (GN Docket No. 12-268).
SUMMARY:  The Commission will consider a 
Report and Order addressing when and in what 
areas 600 MHz Band wireless licensees will be 
deemed to “commence operations” for the 
purposes of establishing when the secondary and 
unlicensed users must cease operations and vacate 
the 600 MHz Band in those areas.
4 OFFICE OF 
ENGINEERING AND 
TECHNOLOGY
TITLE:  Expanding the Economic and Innovation 
Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive 
Auctions (GN Docket No. 12-268); Office of 
Engineering and Technology Releases and Seeks 
Comment on Updated OET-69 Software (ET 
Docket No. 13-26); and Office of Engineering and 
Technology Seeks to Supplement the Incentive 
Auction Proceeding Record Regarding Potential 
Interference Between Broadcast Television and 
Wireless Services (ET Docket No. 14-14).
SUMMARY:  The Commission will consider a 
Third Report & Order and First Order on 
Reconsideration that adopts rules to govern inter-
service interference between broadcast television 
stations and wireless licensees in the 600 MHz 
Band following the incentive auction and sets out 
protection criteria for television stations and 
wireless operations in the band.
5 MEDIA TITLE:  Expanding the Economic and Innovation 
Opportunities of Spectrum Through Incentive 
2Auctions (GN Docket No. 12-268) and Channel 
Sharing by Full Power and Class A Stations 
Outside the Broadcast Television Spectrum 
Incentive Auction Context (MB Docket No. 15-
137).
SUMMARY:  The Commission will consider a 
Second Order on Reconsideration to provide 
additional flexibility to broadcasters interested in 
the incentive auction channel sharing option by 
clarifying that “back-up” channel sharing 
agreements are permitted under the rules and 
providing more time for successful incentive 
auction bidders to transition to shared facilities 
after the auction.
6 CONSUMER AND 
GOVERNMENTAL 
AFFAIRS
TITLE:  Structure and Practices of the Video 
Relay Service Program (CG Docket No. 10-51) 
and Telecommunications Relay Services and 
Speech-to-Speech Disabilities (CG Docket No. 
03-123).
SUMMARY:  The Commission will consider a 
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on 
whether to modify, in part, the four-year 
compensation rate plan for video relay service 
(VRS) and whether to adopt measures that may 
enhance the functional equivalence of VRS. In 
the same item, the Commission will consider an 
Order to modify, in part, the currently applicable 
VRS compensation rates pending action on the 
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
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