Dahua Technology USA asked the FCC for an update on its security compliance plan, filed at the FCC April 7, aimed at “ensuring that Dahua equipment is not sold in the United States for purposes of public safety, security of government facilities, physical security surveillance of critical infrastructure, and other national security purposes.” Dahua noted it can’t get certification for any telecommunications or video surveillance equipment under FCC rules until it obtains approval of the plan. “In the two months since Dahua made this filing, the Commission has taken no action whatsoever with respect to the Plan,’ said a filing posted Monday in docket 21-232: “We have received no substantive feedback from the Commission staff, there has been no public notice, and we have received no indication of when the Commission may take any action with respect to the Plan.” The FCC’s silence is “concerning because … Dahua cannot introduce any new products to the U.S. market until approval of its Plan, even though the Commission recognized that Congress did not intend to prohibit most typical uses of Dahua’s equipment,” the company said.

DOJ announced changes to membership of the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), in a notice in Monday’s Federal Register. Added as members were Beacon Industries, Cogito Innovations, Cognicom, EWA Warrior Services and NCTA. Withdrawing as parties in the consortium were Expedition Technology, Janus Communications, RAM Laboratories, SFL, Siemens Industry Software, the University of California, San Diego, the University of South Carolina and Vectrona. No other changes were made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project, the notice said: “Membership in this group research project remains open, and NSC intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.”

Apple supports the more narrowly tailored View C on identifying additional frequency bands for international mobile telecommunications (IMT) over View A, supported by much of the wireless industry (see 2304240049), at the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference, per a filing posted Friday in docket 16-185. Apple representatives met with FCC staff working on U.S. positions at the WRC. “View C offers appropriate refinements to the frequency bands for study for a future IMT agenda item by accounting for increasing deployments of ultrawideband technologies in 7.7-9.3 GHz,” Apple said. ”We also discussed Apple’s preference to focus on identifying bands primarily below 15 GHz for study for potential IMT identification at WRC-27.”

NTIA said Friday 127 applications requested $1.39 billion to support testing and research and development activities on open and interoperable networks under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (see 2305040073). NTIA plans to make up to $140.5 million available in the first funding round from the $1.5 billion program. “NTIA’s Innovation Fund will address the urgent need to increase the resilience, diversity and security of the wireless equipment market,” said NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson. “The overwhelming interest in this first round of funding shows the private sector is stepping up to meet that need.” The fund was part of the $54.2 billion Chips and Science Act signed into law in August (see 2208090062).

T-Mobile asked the FCC for grants of emergency special temporary authority “to provide vital communications services to the Guam National Guard and other relevant public safety officials it may designate” for 60 days. The STAs are needed because of the “compromised communications services resulting from the crippling effects of Super Typhon Mawar,” T-Mobile said Thursday.

The Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) remains concerned about harmful interference in the 6 GHz band and asked the FCC to take steps asked for by APCO and others (see 2304030032) to protect band incumbents, said a letter to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, posted Wednesday in docket 18-295. “In MCCA member cities,” the band “supports radio towers, emergency communications centers, and cross-jurisdictional communications,” MCCA said: “Given the importance of these functions, the FCC must ensure that the operations of public safety entities and other incumbent users of the 6 GHz band are adequately protected from potential interference stemming from unlicensed use of the spectrum.”

Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric said Thursday it developed a gallium nitride power amplifier with a frequency range of 3,400 MHz using a single power amplifier. The unit can be used for 4G, 5G and later generations of wireless, the company said. “The amplifier is expected to enable the radio unit … to be shared for different communication systems and lead to more power-efficient base stations,” Mitsubishi said.

The National Emergency Number Association said it’s receiving reports of recent increases in accidental calls to 911, apparently tied to interface updates to some Android phones. Calls to 911 are up by as much as 30% in some locations, with similar reports from agencies in Europe, NENA said Wednesday. “We have been informed that by mid-June major Android handset vendors will have completed rolling out updates to address this issue,” the group said. NENA said the public can help by not abandoning accidental calls and not hanging up when a phone accidentally dials 911, letting call takers know there's no emergency.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation asked the FCC to make clear in an eventual second report and order that the entire 30 MHz of the 5.895-5.925 GHz band will be reserved for C-V2X operations, in response to NTIA’s input to the cellular vehicle-to-everything joint waiver approval (see 2304240066). “Several automotive stakeholders have explained that more than 30 megahertz of spectrum will be required, particularly for ‘advanced’ C-V2X safety use cases,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 19-138. The FCC should also clarify that C-V2X operations and federal incumbents exist on a co-primary basis, the group said. “Although the NTIA letter and the C-V2X Waiver Order state that operations under the C-V2X Joint Waiver Request are authorized ‘on a secondary basis’ to federal radiolocation operations in the band, this designation departs from the 5.9 GHz band rules, which provide that federal incumbents share primary status in the band with Intelligent Transportation Services,” the alliance said. Recipients of the joint waiver, meanwhile, asked the FCC Thursday to lift one restriction. The waiver restricts on-board units (OBUs) to 20 dBm transmitter output power, said a filing. The limit is “unnecessary from an interference protection perspective and restricts design flexibility when deploying OBUs under the Joint Waiver Order, for it forces the use of specific antenna designs to achieve the maximum permitted EIRP [equivalent isotropic radiated power] levels and restricts our ability to use higher conducted power limits while still complying with the EIRP levels in the Joint Waiver Order,” the parties said.

Three smaller wireless carriers filed letters at the FCC, posted this week in docket 18-122, saying they will comply to the extent possible with voluntary commitments made by larger carriers in March to extend protection for flight operations from some C-band deployments until Jan. 1, 2028. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and UScellular made the initial voluntary commitments (see 2304030070). Cellular South, Northwest Missouri Cellular and Smith Bagley filed the latest letters (see here, here and here).