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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau - FCC
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau
Agenda MeetingJanuary 15, 2004
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
• Work with an experienced and disciplined team
• Focus on Collaboration, Communication and Cooperation
• Play the whole game: Not just “Fun & Gun” but a running game with good, solid fundamentals like basic blocking and tackling
• Deliver results and not rhetoric
WTB Uses the Gibbs Playbook
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
Vision for WTB• Increase the consumer good to produce economic
growth
• Foster US global competitiveness
• Greater emphasis on public safety and homeland security issues
• Focus on excellent customer serviceModernizing
The FCCHomelandSecurityMediaBroadband Competition Spectrum
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
RulesPoli
cy
PeopleOutreach
Vision for WTB
CustomerService
Spectrum Access
WirelessApplications
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
Success Speaks for Itself! Mobile Telephony: June 2002 - June 2003
UP13%
From 135 Million
Subscribers
152 MillionSubscribers in
2003
UP.1%
From 186,956
Jobs
Jobs
187,169 Jobs in2003
UP13%From $118
Billion
CapitalInvestment
$134 BillionInvested as of
2003
DOWN12%
Price per
minute
10.5 cents Per Minute in 2003
UP18%From 398
MOUs
Minutes of Use
470 Average Monthly MOUs
in 2003
Source: Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association; FCC. Subscriber comparison uses CTIA estimate for June 2002 and FCC estimate for June 2003. June 2003 MOU estimate is preliminary.
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
The New WTBOFFICE OF THE BUREAU CHIEF
John Muleta
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENTRESOURCES &
TECHNOLOGIES
38
JohnChudovan
SPECTRUM &COMPETITION
POLICY
46
WilliamKunze
PUBLIC SAFETY & CRITICAL
INFRA-STRUCTURE
61
D’wanaTerry
BROADBAND
46
Joel Taubenblatt
AUCTIONS &
SPECTRUM ACCESS
34
MargaretWiener
MOBILITY
54
RogerNoel
MANAGEMENT &RESOURCES STAFFBonnie Westbrook
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
Commission Items in 2003
80 items (24 percent of all Commission-level items
– 70 circulated items adopted(23 percent of all circulates)
– 10 Agenda Meeting items(30 Percent of all meeting items)
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments: Auctions Program
Six Auctions Completed in 2003$77.1 Million in Net High Bids
3,141 Licenses Won•1670-1675 MHz Band
•Paging
•Lower 700 MHz
•Narrowband PCS (package bidding)
•Narrowband PCS (non-package bidding)
•Closed Broadcast
Since the inception of the Auctions program, bidders have won 25,488 licenses and paid over $14.4 billion to the U.S. Treasury
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments: Licensing
•WTB administered 3.3 million licenses•In 2003, WTB processed nearly 521,000 applications, including:
– 236,000 New Licenses/Renewals/Special Temporary Authority
56,000 License Modifications
50,000 Transfers and Assignments
179,000 Other Requests (e.g., cancellations)
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
520,830585,806
546,100580,569
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100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
2000 2001 2002 2003
Ap
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ssed Total
Processed
Processedin < 90 Days
92% in< 90days
94% in< 90days
95.5% in< 90days
2003 Accomplishments: Improved Speed of Disposal
98% in< 90days
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments: Backlog Reduction
Bureau Continues to Reduce Backlog• Achieved Chairman’s backlog reduction
goal
• Disposed of all matters pending 30 months or more
• Between 2002 and 2003, average items pending over 135 days fell by 19%
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments: Broadband
• Advanced Wireless Services (AWS)/3G R&O• Multichannel Video Distribution and Data
Service (MVDDS) Recon Order
• 70/80/90 GHz R&O• Multichannel Multipoint Distribution
Service/Instructional Television Fixed Service(MMDS/ITFS) NPRM
Facilitating the Development of Multiple, Competing Broadband Platforms
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments:Competition Policy
•Wireless Local Number Portability Implementationand Outreach
•Wireless Hearing Aid Compatibility Order•Eighth Annual CMRS Competition Report•Case-by-Case Competitive Analysis•Rural Services NPRM•Federal Rural Wireless Initiative with USDA•Migratory Birds NOI/Tower Siting
Promoting Competition and Innovation For the Benefit of Consumers
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments: Spectrum Policy
•Secondary Markets R&O
•AWS/3G Service Rules R&O
•70-80-90 GHz R&O
•Intelligent TransportationSystems R&O
•MMDS/ITFS NPRM
•Rural Spectrum Access NPRM
•MVDDS MO&O
•Six auctions completed
•220 MHz Spectrum Audit•4.9 GHz R&O
Incorporating Principles from the Spectrum Policy Task Force Report
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
2003 Accomplishments: Homeland Security
•E911 Scope R&O
•E911 Deployment
•E911 Coordination Initiative I and II
• Interoperability - 700MHz/National CoordinationCommittee
•Ongoing Analysis of Eliminating Interference at 800 MHz
Ensuring Reliable Communications Networks that are Critical to Lifesaving Work
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•Universal Licensing System - Electronic filing interface redesigned and is now more user friendly
•Launch of WTB Electronic Customer Support Site - Technical help and password reset now electronically submitted. Resetting password now takes 1 day, instead of 3 days
•ULS License Geographic Information System - Enhanced to provide better visual representation of licensing data and easier determination of incumbents’ location
•Integrating MDS/ITFS into ULS – Facilitates rulemaking currently underway
•More of our Applications are Electronic and Customer Friendly (e.g., Form 605) - Provides increased accessibility to users of assistive devices
2003 Accomplishments:Modernization Efforts
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Preview of 2004 Policy Goals• Resolution of 800 MHz Public Safety Proceeding
• Wireless Broadband in 2.1 and 2.5 GHz R&O (MDS/ITFS)• Wireless Broadband Above 5 GHz NPRM• More Streamlining and Harmonization of Service Rules• NRIC VII on E911 Technical Issues• Air-Ground Telecommunications Services R&O• Rural Services R&O• Secondary Markets Second R&O• Ninth Annual CMRS Competition Report• Nationwide NEPA/Tower Siting Programmatic Agreement R&O• Wireless Infrastructure Policy/Tower Sitings• Continue Spectrum Audits and Auctions
• Public Workshops and Forums (Public/Private Spectrum Access Technologies and Partnerships; E911 Coordination Initiative III)
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Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
Thank You!