[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 199 (Tuesday, October 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 48229]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22453]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 10-208; DA 17-926; DA 17-975]


Instructions for Filing 4G LTE Coverage Data To Determine Areas 
Presumptively Eligible for Mobility Fund Phase II Support; Contact 
Information Due by October 23, 2017; Responses Due by January 4, 2018

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notification of filing instructions; deadlines for filing 
responses and providing contact information.

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SUMMARY: In these documents, the Rural Broadband Auctions Task Force, 
and the Wireline Competition and the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau 
(Bureaus), provide instructions for filing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) 
coverage data pursuant to the MF-II Challenge Process Order, announce 
that the Commission has published a notice of the Office of Management 
and Budget's (OMB) approval of this information collection in the 
Federal Register, and announce the deadlines by which subject entities 
must submit contact information and file responses to this information 
collection.

DATES: Contact information due by October 23, 2017; responses to 
information collection due by January 4, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken Lynch at (202) 418-7356 or Ben 
Freeman at (202) 418-0628, or email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Public Notice, 
Instructions for Filing 4G LTE Coverage Data to Determine Areas 
Presumptively Eligible for Mobility Fund II Support (4G LTE Coverage 
Data Instructions Public Notice), WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 
10-208, DA 17-926, released on September 22, 2017, and the Public 
Notice, Responses to the Mobility Fund Phase II Data Collection Are Due 
January 4, 2018, WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 10-208, DA 17-975 
released October 6, 2017. The complete text of these documents is 
available for public inspection and copying during normal business 
hours in the FCC Reference Information Center, 445 12th Street SW., 
Room CY-A257, Washington, DC 20554, or by downloading the text from the 
Federal Communications Commission's (Commission) Web site at http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0926/DA-17-926A1.pdf and http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1006/DA-17-975A1.pdf. Alternative formats are available to 
persons with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, 
audio format) by sending an email to [email protected] or by calling the 
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 
418-0432 (TTY).
    On August 3, 2017, the Commission adopted the MF-II Challenge 
Process Order (FCC 17-102), which established the procedures for a 
robust challenge process to ensure that the Commission targets Mobility 
Fund Phase II (MF-II) support to areas that lack unsubsidized 4G LTE 
service. The MF-II Challenge Process Order adopted parameters for a 
one-time collection of 4G LTE coverage data that the Commission will 
use, in conjunction with subsidy data, to establish the map of areas 
presumptively eligible for MF-II support. The instructions attached to 
the 4G LTE Coverage Data Collection Public Notice fulfill the directive 
in the MF-II Challenge Process Order that the Bureaus provide filing 
instructions, including data specifications, formatting information, 
and any other necessary technical parameters for the collection, and 
provide the detailed information filers will need to generate and 
submit their 4G LTE coverage data--specifically, who must file, what 
must be filed, when to file, and how to file. The provider-specific 
information submitted as part of the data collection will be treated as 
confidential.
    Entities subject to this information collection must submit contact 
information for this collection using the template posted at https://www.fcc.gov/MF2-LTE-Collection by October 23, 2017. Such entities must 
collect and submit their responses to this information collection using 
the process and format described in the instructions attached to the 4G 
LTE Coverage Data Collection Public Notice no later than January 4, 
2018, which is 90 days after the date on which the Commission published 
notice in the Federal Register of the Office of Management and Budget's 
approval of this information collection (see 82 FR 46494 (Oct. 5, 
2017)).
    Additional information about this data collection can be found on 
the Commission's MF-II 4G LTE Data Collection Web page at www.fcc.gov/MF2-LTE-Collection.

Federal Communications Commission.
William Huber,
Associate Chief, Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, WTB.
[FR Doc. 2017-22453 Filed 10-16-17; 8:45 am]
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