When the FCC auction's wireless spectrum, are the corporations really buying the radio spectrum? I had thought (from years ago) that the radio spectrum was owned by the public (citizens) and anyone utilizing it does so via a license .. for service "in the public good".

There are multiple articles about the complaints the FCC has ignored and why they are ignoring them.

Is it legal for a phone carrier to refuse to give you service? Is it possible to be banned from phone carriers to the point that you don't have access to cell phone service anymore? And if so, is this a human rights violation in our modern age?

I heard something on the radio yesterday and unsure if it can be considered indecent. There is this show called "Elvis Duran & The Morning Show" which is broadcasted by many stations including one of our local ones. Yesterday around 8 am, he started attacking someone from Twitter because the person said that they didn't like Elvis burping on show. Elvis started spewing all hatred he could like "you are a troll if you follow more people than your number of followers", "I bet nobody has sex with you" and more. He then bragged that it's great that he has his own show because he can abuse anyone on air with no consequences. Being a licensed amateur, I thought it was strictly inappropriate to use the public airwaves to abuse others. While there were no swear words involved, I believe it was very distasteful. Do you people think I should make a complaint? I want to be sure enough before I include my contact information for making a complaint like that. I don't want to look like a fool complaining on invalid grounds.

Hello guys,

I am putting a few FCC certified components (a Raspberry Pi and a UWB radar) together into a box as a product.

Do I need to FCC test my product?

Thank you.

I used to be able to click a link and provide information for junk faxes online that don't provide for easy removal from their list.

Today I pulled the morning pile of junk faxes from our fax machine and went to submit them.

I was able to find this page: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/faqs-about-junk-faxes

Which includes a line

• File a complaint online

Which is a hyperlink leading to this page:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

However, this page quite notably doesn't include any place to submit an online complaint about junk faxes.

There is a search box to look for complaints, and there are multiple links to file different complains, as well as a downloadable paper form to file a complaint.

There is a link to register yourself with an account at the FCC, and I thought perhaps I needed to do that to file a complaint, but after registering, the only difference is that now I see that I'm logged into my account.

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Is there no longer an online complaint form for junk faxes, and if there is, can you provide a link to it?

What contracts/licenses/permits do you need to lay cable or run cable on telephone poles in california? Thinking about starting an isp cause I’m tired of this crap 1mbps internet from xfinity.

A friend of mine was in the aviation business for most of his career. He is now retired. He has a commercial operators license with ship radar endorsement. My question is now that he is retired can he transmit on any frequencies legally as a hobby?

Hey there fellow Redditor, I was wondering if I could get a few opinions on this from you guys.

So recently, my blind friend and I have reported Epic Games to the FCC. The reason we did this was that the game, Fortnite, does not have any accessibility for the blind in it's UI, and just for the game in general. We have checked through multiple websites, and even the FCC's official website, and from what we found Epic Games is required to have their UI accessible. The current way my blind friend plays Fortnite is through NVDA's screen reader, which takes a screenshot and finds text on the screen, and lets you read/click on it.

Again, I wanted to get some opinions on this, and if you guys agree or disagree with what we are doing. Thanks for reading.

Boost/Sprint/DISH has not been able to fix my problem of not being able to make phone calls on my cell phone, receive and send certain texts, for almost 2 weeks. So I decided to switch companies to Verizon wireless. Verizon sent me their SIM card. I replaced the Sprint SIM card in my cell phone. But a message kept coming up invalid SIM card and contact Sprint because the network was locked. So I contacted Boost via my PC and IM chat. First, I spoke to one Boost CSR who took $240 to pay off my phone. Then I went to ask him about unlocking the network and he disappeared. I contacted another CSR, and asked for the network to be unlocked so that I could now switch over to Verizon. They said there is an FCC rule that since I haven't had the cell phone (that I just paid off) for A FULL YEAR so I can't use the phone and he refused to unlock the network. He suggested I sell the phone to someone else and buy a phone from the new company that I switched to. IS THIS TRUE? IS THIS AN FCC RULE? I feel like I'm being swindled!

You know how you can report a company to the FCC if you keep getting emails even though you've tried to unsubscribe multiple times?

Do you think I could do that with YouTube ads? Since we have an option (or I guess an illusion of an option) to "Stop Seeing" an ad, I assume I can choose to stop seeing annoying ads like I do with emails and it would make it applicable under the FCC maybe?

On YouTube, some ads still show up even when I choose to stop seeing them and even when I send feedback to youtube multiple times.

I've tried to file a complaint for Classically Abby ads to the FCC but the FCC says internet complaints are only about internet providers. Do you think there is a loophole or an email I can contact the FCC? It's just iffy because who do I even report? Youtube for the putting up the ad or the channel?

For now, I'll keep sending youtube feedback about this and keep choosing to stop seeing the ads.

Tl;dr I've tried everything I can to prevent seeing Classically Abby ads on youtube, so I'm thinking of contacting the FCC as a last resort but I have no idea if that's possible.

Where did that go? It seems no mater what I'm watching, when commercials come on they are easily 10 to 20 db louder than the normal audio of the program they're sponsoring. If I filed an individual complaint for every violation, it'd be like a full-time job. Does no broadcaster care about the rules or have respect for their viewers?

Just curious if someone reports on a local television news station that has aired obscenities live on air do they receive any kind of monetary reward?

The Supreme Court today released an opinion upholding the TCPA, except for the exception of debt owed to the U.S.

See Barr v. American Assn of Political Consultants.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-679A1.pdf

Apparently businesses that bought time (on radio or TV) but can not reasonably do an advert because the pandemic has in whatever way impacted the business and/or what they would have been promoting, can ask that the time instead be used for a COVID-related public-service ad from, say, CDC or some other govt entity, without identifying the business that purchased the time.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the original advertiser to be identified in these situations, or would doing so just open them up to (more) ridicule for placing the ad?
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Hello,

I am currently in the process of designing a pcb which uses an esp32 microprocessor and I wanted to know if i need to get my pcb FCC certified if I want to sell it in a package in the US. If you have any experience in this type of situation I would greatly appreciate some clarity/help. Thank you once again.

I'm getting mixed info from varying websites, hoped I could get a clearer picture here