# Presentation: 211317

## Wireless Telecommunications Bureau  Agenda MeetingJanuary 15, 2004

## WTB Uses the Gibbs Playbook

- 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

## 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 service

- Broadband

- Competition

- Spectrum

- Media

- Homeland
- Security

- Modernizing
- The FCC

## Vision for WTB

**Rules**

**Policy**

**People**

**Outreach**

**Vision for WTB**

## Success Speaks for Itself! Mobile Telephony: June 2002 - June 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.

## The New WTB 

**OFFICE OF THE BUREAU CHIEF**
**John Muleta**

**SPECTRUM **
**MANAGEMENT**
**RESOURCES &**
**TECHNOLOGIES**
**38**
**John**
**Chudovan**

**SPECTRUM &**
**COMPETITION**
**POLICY**
**46**
**William**
**Kunze**

** ****PUBLIC SAFETY **
**& CRITICAL **
**INFRA-**
**STRUCTURE**
**61**
**D’wana**
**Terry**

** **
** ****BROADBAND **
**46**
**Joel **
**Taubenblatt**

**AUCTIONS **
**& **
**SPECTRUM **
**ACCESS**
**34**
**Margaret**
**Wiener**

**MOBILITY **
**54**
**Roger**
**Noel**

**MANAGEMENT &**
**RESOURCES STAFF**
**Bonnie Westbrook**

**Notes:**
Conducted a “bottoms up” organizational review, including an analysis of its functions and information received in a staff survey

Realignment better supports the FCC’s strategic goals – Broadband, Competition, Spectrum, Media, Homeland Security and Modernizing the FCC

As part of the reorganization, the Bureau now includes six divisions 

Reorganization does not add or remove functions from the Bureau’s portfolio 

Reorganization involves the redeployment of existing positions which will improve the Bureau’s ability to fulfill its mission

## 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)

**level items**
- 70 circulated items adopted
-   (23 percent of all circulates)
- 10 Agenda Meeting items
-   (30 Percent of all meeting items)

** ****Commission Items in 2003**

## 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***

**Notes:**
WTB operates a state-of-the-art auctions program for assigning spectrum licenses

## WTB administered 3.3 million licenses

In 2003, WTB processed nearly 521,000 applications, including:

- In 2003, WTB processed nearly 521,000 applications, including:

**2003 Accomplishments: ****Licensing**

**	**236,000	New Licenses/Renewals/Special 			Temporary Authority
- 	56,000	License Modifications
- 	 50,000	Transfers and Assignments
- 	179,000	Other Requests (e.g., cancellations)

## 2003 Accomplishments: Improved Speed of Disposal

- 92% in
- < 90
- days

- 94% in
- < 90
- days

- 95.5% in
- < 90
- days

**2003 Accomplishments: ****Improved Speed of Disposal**

- 98% in
- < 90
- days

**Notes:**
While our volume of applications process has decreased this year, our auto processing percentage has increased (73% this year, versus 71% last year).  In addition, in prior years, auto processing was limited to simpler, high volume changes (such as corporation name changes).  Auto processing is now handling more technical processing such as certain public safety applications.

## 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%

**  ****2003 Accomplishments: ****  Backlog Reduction**

##   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***

##     2003 Accomplishments:    Competition Policy

- Wireless Local Number Portability Implementation
-   and 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***

##   2003 Accomplishments:   Spectrum Policy

- Secondary Markets R&O
- AWS/3G Service Rules R&O
- 70-80-90 GHz R&O
- Intelligent Transportation
-   Systems 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***

**Notes:**
Secondary Markets – promotes access to spectrum through spectrum leasing

##    2003 Accomplishments:    Homeland Security

- E911 Scope R&O
- E911 Deployment
- E911 Coordination Initiative I and II**        **

- Interoperability - 700
-   MHz/National Coordination
-   Committee
- Ongoing Analysis of
-   Eliminating Interference
-   at 800 MHz

***Ensuring Reliable Communications Networks that are ***
***Critical to Lifesaving Work***

## 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

**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 ****	**

## 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)**

## Thank You!