The FCC’s October meeting will be Oct. 28, starting at 11:30 a.m. at FCC headquarters, it said, andrninclude the three items teed up for the originally proposed Oct. 22 meeting — the 700 MHz interoperabilityrnagreement, an order adopting technical rules for the 700 MHz broadband spectrum licensed to FirstNetrnand an order and rulemaking notice on rural call completion. Since the shutdown also cut off meetings onrnthe three items, the FCC won’t impose sunshine rules until Thursday at noon, said a public notice (http://rnbit.ly/1aWDhsb). An order on new filing deadlines is more complicated (http://fcc.us/19RD6fl). In general,rndeadlines are delayed by 16 days, with exceptions. The first filings, originally due between Oct. 1rnand Oct. 6, are now due Tuesday. The order carves out exceptions in 10 other proceedings. For example,rncomments were supposed to be due Friday on the foreign ownership implications of Verizon’s buy of Vodafone’srn45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. Rather than impose a 16-day delay, comments are nowrndue Oct. 25 , replies Nov. 1. Industry officials said Verizon and Vodafone hoped there would not be a delayrnin FCC review of the transaction because of the shutdown (CD Oct 15 p1). Comments were due Tuesdayrnon an NPRM on proposed rules for spectrum in the 1695-1710 MHz, 1755-1780 MHz, 2020-2025rnMHz and 2155-2180 MHz bands. They're now due Oct. 28. Reply comments were to be due Oct. 10 onrnDish Network's waiver request for flexible use of its AWS-4 spectrum. Dish had asked the FCC to handrndown an order by Dec. 14, 30 days before the start of the H-block auction. Reply comments are now duernOct. 28. Network Outage Reporting System filings continued to be due during the shutdown. The FCCrnalso rescheduled for Nov. 8 its Learn Everything About Reverse-Auctions Now Program workshop onrnunlicensed spectrum issues, which was delayed by the federal government shutdown (http://bit.ly/rnH5OluO). The commission said more details would follow.
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