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The FirstNet Board hereby agrees to extend its period for negotiations on spectrum lease agreements with the BTOP public safety recipients through July 12, 2013, and authorizes Sue Swenson to continue such negotiations on FirstNet's behalf;

The webcast will be in Flash format. May not work with all browsers; consult your system administrator.  Webcast will start before 1pm on 07/24.

NTIA announces that the July 9, 2013 open meeting announced in the Federal Register on June 12, 2013 of the privacy multistakeholder process concerning mobile application transparency has been rescheduled for July 25, 2013. The meeting will be held on July 9, 2013 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, at the American Institute of Architects, 1735 New York Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20006.

On February 16, 2007 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted its report “Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act Report to Congress on Agency Plans For Spectrum Relocation Funds” to Congress requesting $1,008,552,502 for 1990 frequency assignments be transferred from the relocation fund. After 30 days, OMB made Advanced Wireless Services auction funds available to the agencies for relocation.

The update reflects a reduction in the total number of frequency assignments in the 1710-1755 MHz band from 76 to 34.

NTIA, in its role as the U.S. government’s representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has actively participated in the development of the GAC’s advice on the rollout of new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). The statement below is the U.S.

06/27/2013 FirstNet Board Special Meeting Documents:

First Responder Network Authority
Board Meeting Agenda
VIA TELECONFERENCE
June 27, 2013
1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

The Board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) will hold a Special Meeting via teleconference on June 27, 2013, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The Special Meeting will be conducted via teleconference. Members of the public may listen to the meeting by dialing toll-free 1 (888) 469-3306 and using passcode “FirstNet.” Due to the limited number of ports, attendance via teleconference will be on a first-come, first-served basis. NTIA will post an agenda for the Special Meeting on its Web site prior to the meeting.