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(i) Access to facilities, including 

whether each licensee will have 

unrestrained access to the shared 

transmission facilities; 

(ii) Operation, maintenance, repair, 

and modification of facilities, including 

a list of all relevant equipment, a 

description of each party’s financial 

obligations, and any relevant notice 

provisions; and 

(iii) Termination or transfer/

assignment of rights to the shared 

licenses, including the ability of a new 

licensee to assume the existing CSA. 

(2) Channel sharing agreements 

submitted under this section must 

include a provision affirming 

compliance with the channel sharing 

requirements in this section including a 

provision requiring that each channel 

sharing licensee shall retain spectrum 

usage rights adequate to ensure a 

sufficient amount of the shared channel 

capacity to allow it to provide at least 

one Standard Definition (SD) program 

stream at all times. 

(e) Termination and assignment/

transfer of shared channel. If a channel 

sharing station’s license authorized 

under this section is terminated, the 

remaining channel sharing station or 

stations will continue to have rights to 

their portion(s) of the shared channel. 

The license(s) of the remaining channel 

sharing station(s) shall be modified to 

reflect that its channel is no longer 

shared with the terminated licensee. In 

the event that only one station remains 

on the shared channel, that station may 

request that the shared channel be redesignated as a non-shared channel or 

could enter into a CSA with another 

station and resume shared operations, 

subject to Commission approval. 

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47 CFR Part 20 

[WT Docket No. 10–4; FCC 14–138] 

The Commission’s Rules To Improve 

Wireless Coverage Through the Use of 

Signal Boosters 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission 

ACTION: Further notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: In the Further Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking, the Commission 

seeks comment on whether to retain the 

‘‘personal use’’ restriction for ProviderSpecific Consumer Signal Boosters. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

December 29, 2014 and reply comments 

on or before January 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by WT Docket No. 10–4 or 

FCC 14–138, by any of the following 

methods: 

D Federal Communications 

Commission’s Web site: http://

fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

D Mail: FCC Headquarters, 445 12th 

St. SW., Washington, DC 20554. 

D People with Disabilities: Contact the 

FCC to request reasonable 

accommodations (accessible format 

documents, sign language interpreters, 

CART, etc.) by email: FCC504@fcc.gov 

or phone: (202) 418–0530 or TTY: (202) 

418–0432. 

For detailed instructions for 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amanda Huetinck of the Mobility 

Division, Wireless Telecommunications 

Bureau, at (202) 418–7090 or 

Amanda.Huetinck@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is the 

Commission’s Further Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking, in WT Docket 

No. 10–4, FCC 14–138, adopted 

September 19, 2014, and released 

September 23, 2014. The Order on 

Reconsideration that was adopted 

concurrently with the Further Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking is published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register. 

The full text of that document is 

available for inspection and copying 

during normal business hours in the 

FCC Reference Center, 445 12th Street 

SW., Room CY–A257, Washington, DC 

20554, or by downloading the text from 

the Commission’s Web site at http://

www.fcc.gov/document/signal-boostersorder-reconsideration-and-fnprm. The 

complete text also may be purchased 

from the Commission’s duplicating 

contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 

Portals II, 445 12th Street SW., Suite 

CY–B402, Washington, DC 20554. 

Pursuant to §§ 1.415 and 1.419 of the 

Commission’s rules, 47 CFR 1.415, 

1.419, interested parties may file 

comments and reply comments on or 

before the dates indicated on the first 

page of this document. Comments may 

be filed using the Commission’s 

Electronic Comment Filing System 

(ECFS). See Electronic Filing of 

Documents in Rulemaking Proceedings, 

63 FR 24121 (1998). 

D Electronic Filers: Comments may be 

filed electronically using the Internet by 

accessing the ECFS: http://

fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. 

D Paper Filers: Parties who choose to 

file by paper must file an original and 

one copy of each filing. If more than one 

docket or rulemaking number appears in 

the caption of this proceeding, filers 

must submit two additional copies for 

each additional docket or rulemaking 

number. 

Filings can be sent by hand or 

messenger delivery, by commercial 

overnight courier, or by first-class or 

overnight U.S. Postal Service mail. All 

filings must be addressed to the 

Commission’s Secretary, Office of the 

Secretary, Federal Communications 

Commission. 

D All hand-delivered or messengerdelivered paper filings for the 

Commission’s Secretary must be 

delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445 

12th St. SW., Room TW–A325, 

Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours 

are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. All hand 

deliveries must be held together with 

rubber bands or fasteners. Any 

envelopes and boxes must be disposed 

of before entering the building. 

D Commercial overnight mail (other 

than U.S. Postal Service Express Mail 

and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9300 

East Hampton Drive, Capitol Heights, 

MD 20743. 

D U.S. Postal Service first-class, 

Express, and Priority mail must be 

addressed to 445 12th Street, SW., 

Washington DC 20554. 

People with Disabilities: To request 

materials in accessible formats for 

people with disabilities (braille, large 

print, electronic files, audio format), 

send an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call 

the Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice), 202– 

418–0432 (tty). 

Synopsis 

I. Introduction and Background 

1. In this Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, we seek comment on 

whether to retain the ‘‘personal use’’ 

restriction for Provider-Specific 

Consumer Signal Boosters. 

2. The Commission released the 

Signal Boosters NPRM on April 6, 2011, 

whereby it proposed rules to facilitate 

the development and deployment of 

well-designed signal boosters. On 

February 20, 2013, in the Signal 

Boosters Report and Order (Report and 

Order), the Commission adopted the 

new regulatory framework to allow 

consumers to realize the benefits of 

using signal boosters while preventing, 

controlling, and, if necessary, resolving 

interference to wireless networks. In the 

Report and Order, the Commission 


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adopted new technical, operational, and 

registration requirements for signal 

boosters. The new rules created two 

classes of signal boosters—Consumer 

and Industrial—with distinct regulatory 

requirements for each. 

II. Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking 

3. The underlying purpose of the 

Report and Order was to broaden the 

availability of signal boosters while 

ensuring that these boosters do not 

adversely affect wireless networks. In 

the concurrently adopted Order on 

Reconsideration, we adopted rule 

amendments that advance this goal by 

making Provider-Specific Consumer 

Signal Booster safer to wireless 

networks. Consistent with that purpose, 

we now consider whether to further 

expand consumer access to signal 

boosters. We therefore seek comment on 

whether to remove the ‘‘personal use’’ 

restriction on the operation of ProviderSpecific Consumer Signal Boosters. 

4. To facilitate broader access to 

signal boosters, in the Report and Order, 

we developed a streamlined process for 

authorizing Consumer Signal Boosters 

by requiring consumers to obtain the 

consent of their wireless carrier and 

register their Consumer Signal Booster 

with that carrier. We found that this 

licensing framework would best 

facilitate the rapid introduction of 

Consumer Signal Boosters while 

enabling wireless operators to maintain 

sufficient control of their networks. By 

incorporating the restriction that 

Consumer Signal Boosters may be 

operated only for ‘‘personal use,’’ we 

also made it possible for consumers to 

seek consent from and register their 

devices only with the wireless carrier to 

which they subscribe. This restriction is 

particularly relevant for Wideband 

Consumer Signal Boosters, as they are 

capable of operating on spectrum 

licensed to multiple wireless providers. 

5. With Provider-Specific Consumer 

Signal Boosters, however, we question 

whether this ‘‘personal use’’ restriction 

remains necessary, as the device 

operates only on a single provider’s 

spectrum. Because the consumer will 

have obtained consent from and 

registered with that single carrier, any 

transmissions from the Signal Booster 

are therefore authorized. 

6. We therefore ask whether we 

should eliminate the ‘‘personal use’’ 

restriction for Provider-Specific 

Consumer Signal Boosters (but not for 

Wideband Consumer Signal Boosters). 

Would removing this restriction for 

Provider-Specific Consumer Signal 

Boosters be in the public interest? What 

are the costs and benefits of removing 

the restriction? What are the costs and 

benefits of maintaining the restriction? 

III. Procedural Matters 

A. Paperwork Reduction Act 

7. The Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking does not contain new or 

modified information collection 

requirements subject to the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Therefore 

the Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking does not contain any new 

or modified information collection 

burdens for small businesses with fewer 

than 25 employees, pursuant to the 

Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 

2002. 

B. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

8. The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

(RFA) requires that an agency prepare a 

regulatory flexibility analysis for notice 

and comment rulemakings, unless the 

agency certifies that ‘‘the rule will not, 

if promulgated, have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities.’’ 

9. We hereby certify that the Further 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking will not 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities. 

The Commission will send a copy of the 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 

including this certification, to the Chief 

Counsel for Advocacy of the Small 

Business Administration. 

C. Ex Parte Presentations 

10. Permit-But-Disclose. We will 

continue to treat this proceeding as a 

‘‘permit-but-disclose’’ proceeding in 

accordance with the Commission’s ex 

parte rules. Persons making ex parte 

presentations must file a copy of any 

written presentation or a memorandum 

summarizing any oral presentation 

within two business days after the 

presentation (unless a different deadline 

applicable to the Sunshine period 

applies). Persons making oral ex parte 

presentations are reminded that 

memoranda summarizing the 

presentation must (1) list all persons 

attending or otherwise participating in 

the meeting at which the ex parte 

presentation was made, and (2) 

summarize all data presented and 

arguments made during the 

presentation. If the presentation 

consisted in whole or in part of the 

presentation of data or arguments 

already reflected in the presenter’s 

written comments, memoranda or other 

filings in the proceeding, the presenter 

may provide citations to such data or 

arguments in his or her prior comments, 

memoranda, or other filings (specifying 

the relevant page and/or paragraph 

numbers where such data or arguments 

can be found) in lieu of summarizing 

them in the memorandum. Documents 

shown or given to Commission staff 

during ex parte meetings are deemed to 

be written ex parte presentations and 

must be filed consistent with rule 

§ 1.1206(b). In proceedings governed by 

rule § 1.49(f) or for which the 

Commission has made available a 

method of electronic filing, written ex 

parte presentations and memoranda 

summarizing oral ex parte 

presentations, and all attachments 

thereto, must be filed through the 

electronic comment filing system 

available for that proceeding, and must 

be filed in their native format (e.g., .doc, 

.xml, .ppt, searchable .pdf). Participants 

in this proceeding should familiarize 

themselves with the Commission’s ex 

parte rules. 

IV. Ordering Clauses 

11. Accordingly, it is ordered that, 

pursuant to the authority of sections 1, 

4(i), 7, 10, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 302, 

303, 308, 309(j), 310, and 710 of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), 157, 

160, 201, 202, 208, 214, 301, 302a, 303, 

308, 309(j), 310, and 610, and §§ 1.412, 

1.425, and 1.429 of the Commission’s 

rules, 47 CFR 1.412, 1.425, 1.429, the 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

is hereby adopted. 

12. It is further ordered that the 

Commission shall send a copy of the 

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 

to Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to the 

Congressional Review Act. 

13. It is further ordered that the 

Commission’s Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, Reference 

Information Center, shall send a copy of 

the Further Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking to the Chief Counsel for 

Advocacy of the Small Business 

Administration. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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