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The FCC is the US agency regulating interstate and international communications by radio, TV, satellite, and cable, including spectrum licensing.
FCC is weighing a Club for Growth petition to let political groups robocall mobile phones, AI voices included, without prior consent. Voice-AI outreach teams would swap a consent check for opt-out handling and a per-person call counter.
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SpaceX agreed on Thursday to buy Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio for Starlink Mobile, pending approval from the FCC. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile shares fell after hours on fears that a satellite rival that can reach phones indoors will start a price war.
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Rainbow Robotics, a Samsung Electronics subsidiary, has become the first of about 20 Korean robot makers under new US rules to seek an FCC exemption. Approval assumes expanded US production, and one startup official says the company lacks the capacity to attract that investment.
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FCC votes October 29 on rules to bar device testing in mainland China by December 2028, where 82% of last year's authorized devices were tested. That gives hardware teams roughly two years to rebook certification work at labs elsewhere.
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Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers led 21 states in asking the FCC to address TP-Link's China ties before it approves new router models. Nebraska's office puts TP-Link at 60 percent or more of the US retail market for Wi-Fi systems and small-office routers.
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Google's Project Suncatcher put a satellite carrying four TPU chips into orbit on Oct. 1 to test AI computing in space. NPR reported the chips run only 15 minutes before cooling down, and that limit decides how much computing each launched kilogram can deliver.
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Ring's first smart lock, due in early 2027 at $249, can be powered by turning its thumb-turn dial when the battery dies. How much that is worth depends on how often the door is used and who is standing at it when the charge runs out.
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SpaceX's reported $8 billion purchase of 14 MHz brings Starlink Mobile to roughly 80 MHz, T-Mobile CTO John Saw wrote, against his carrier's nearly 400 MHz. His wider argument is that most phone traffic happens indoors, where SpaceX would have to add coverage one building at a time.
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Xona Space Systems will launch six Pulsar navigation satellites on a SpaceX rideshare this month, the start of a planned 258-satellite constellation. Early coverage will be patchy, so the beta starts with timing customers before anyone can test Xona's centimeter-accuracy claim.
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Apple co-developed seven smart-home devices with LG that will ship under LG's name, with LG handling manufacturing and support, Bloomberg reports. For teams selling locks, cameras and thermostats into HomeKit, LG is now both a rival with Apple's engineering behind it and the obvious partner to call.
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SpaceX's plan to become a major US mobile carrier cut AT&T and Verizon shares 10% and T-Mobile's 14% on Friday, erasing more than $50 billion in value. JPMorgan and UBS analysts say matching the incumbents would take a ground network SpaceX has yet to build, so business wireless buyers are negotiating against that construction timetable.
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Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska sued TP-Link, saying it misled buyers about router security and its ties to China. For anyone buying routers, the federal ban that already blocks TP-Link's new models from US sale is the constraint that applies now.
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Cable lobby groups for Comcast and Charter plan to sue the FCC over its move to repeal the 39 percent cap on broadcast station reach, Techdirt reported. They argue that merged station groups would extract significantly more money from cable companies, so the cost of carrying local TV is now headed to court.
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Amazon has built its 1,000th Leo broadband satellite and says commercial service is weeks away. TNW puts the count in orbit at 396, unchanged since July, so what customers can buy now depends on how fast the rockets fly.
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FCC commissioners will vote Oct. 29 on auctioning 25MHz for satellite-to-phone service and on taking comment on 482MHz more. A clearing price would test the roughly $302 million a megahertz SpaceX paid EchoStar, by Reuters' figures.
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FCC filings show Matter setup codes and Thread radios on an LG thermostat, sensor and deadbolt that Apple reportedly helped design. Setup goes through the open standard, while the lock's hands-free entry depends on which phones count as compatible, and the filings do not list them.
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Disney's ABC asked a federal judge on Tuesday to halt an FCC early review of its eight station licenses, calling it retaliation for its journalism. Judge Loren AliKhan sounded doubtful that the review is about Disney's hiring, so her ruling will test how far a regulator can use license timing against a newsroom.
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Cowboy Space has asked the FCC to approve Stampede, a 20,000-satellite data center constellation it says can skip the power grid entirely. Forecasts around these filings put meaningful capacity after 2030, too late for any power plan due this decade.
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FCC opens comment on a Club for Growth petition to let political robocalls, AI voices included, reach cellphones without consent at three calls per 30 days. The National Consumer Law Center says that cap means little when any number of political groups can each claim three calls before the midterms.
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AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile formed a company on Oct. 1 to pool some of their airwaves so ordinary phones can reach satellites beyond tower range. Analysts read it as a defense against SpaceX, while a driver who loses signal on a back road this week has the same options as before.
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