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Yesterday, the FCC released its Report and Order adopting a schedule of regulatory fees to cover the Commission’s Fiscal Year 2026 salaries and expenses appropriation of $416,112,000. The Order largely follows the approach set out in the FCC’s April 2026 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), continuing the full-time employee (FTE)-based methodology the FCC has used in recent years and again reallocating certain FTEs from indirect FTEs of the Office of General Counsel, Office of Economics and Analytics, and Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, to direct FTEs of various of the core licensing bureaus.

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Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published the FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes:

  • Georgia GMRS Licensee Receives Notice of Violation for Improperly Linking Repeaters
  • FCC Cites Electronic Billboard Owner in Colorado for Years of Harmful Interference
  • Three Texas FM Translators Cited for Retransmitting Wrong Primary Station

Improperly Linked Repeaters Generate Notice of Violation for Georgia GMRS Licensee
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to a Georgia General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) licensee for improperly linking multiple GMRS repeaters via the internet. Linking the repeaters allowed them to simultaneously retransmit radio messages over a larger geographic area than permitted under FCC rules.

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