October 2024 Open Commission Meeting

The FCC held this Open Meeting on the subjects listed below:

Public Drafts of Meeting Items – The FCC is publicly releasing the draft text of each item expected to be considered at this Open Commission Meeting with the exception of items involving specific, enforcement-related matters including restricted proceedings and hearing designation orders. One-page cover sheets are included in the public drafts to help summarize each item. Links to these materials are provided below.

• Achieving 100% Wireless Handset Model Hearing Aid Compatibility 
  The Commission considered a Report and Order adopting a 100% hearing aid compatibility requirement for all wireless handset models offered for sale or use in the United States and implementation provisions related to this requirement. (WT Docket No. 23-388)
• Implementation of the National Suicide Hotline Act of 2018 
  The Commission considered a Third Report and Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would adopt rules requiring wireless providers to implement a georouting solution for 988 calls to ensure that the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline can connect callers to geographically appropriate crisis centers based on the caller’s general location. The Third Further Notice would also propose and seek comment on requiring covered text providers to support georouting for covered 988 text messages. (WC Docket No. 18-336)
• Restricted Adjudicatory Matter*
  The Commission considered and announced the tentative selectees from 93 groups of mutually exclusive applications for new low-power FM station construction permits filed during the December 2023 application window.
• Connect2Health Task Force
  The Commission received a presentation from the Connect2Health Task Force on updates to maternal health data in the Mapping Broadband Health in America platform.

*NOTE: This item was adopted prior to the Open Meeting and thus deleted from the agenda of the meeting.

Meeting Documents

FCC Requires All Mobile Phones To Be Hearing Aid Compatible

• News Release
• Report and Order
• Rosenworcel Statement
• Starks Statement

FCC Adopts Rules Requiring Georouting for All Wireless Calls to 988

• News Release
• Report and Order
• Rosenworcel Statement
• Carr Statement
• Starks Statement

Broadband Connectivity & Maternal Health Presentation

• Presentation
• Rosenworcel Statement
• Gomez Statement

Related Materials

• Deletion Notice
• Agenda
• Tentative Agenda
• Circulation Documents:
  • Implementing 988 Georouting to the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
  • Achieving 100% Wireless Handset Model Hearing Aid Compatibility