Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has circulated the following items for consideration by his fellow FCC Commissioners as part of the tentative agenda for the next open meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 4, 2008:
1) A Report and Order, Order on Remand, and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking addressing the comprehensive reform of intercarrier compensation and universal service.
2) The ALLTEL/Verizon and Sprint Nextel/Clearwire mergers.
3) A Second Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order addressing unlicensed operation in the television broadcast bands.
4) An Order adopting rules for the use of distributed transmission system technologies in the digital television service.
5) An Order addressing the closed captioning of digital programming and several other closed captioning issues.
