The FCC is expected to take up changes to the E-rate...

the Mobile Wireless Competition Report and an order on local-number portability rules. Most of agenda items are follow ups to the National Broadband Plan. A rulemaking notice will continue the agency’s efforts to improve E-rate accessibility in schools and libraries, a commission official said. The proposals in the item are “more specific than what’s in the National Broadband Plan,” the official said. The agency is also to vote on an order on changes to the wireless communications services band meant to make deployment of wireless broadband services there easier. An earlier public notice proposed relaxing rules on the band while imposing new restrictions on duty cycles, out-of-band emissions. The rules will also likely establish a guard band to prevent interference with nearby spectrum users. Sirius XM has been the most vocal opponent to the rule changes, saying WCS service would interfere with its satellite radio service. The WCS Coalition has said the interference concerns are overblown. The pole attachment order is aimed at establishing pole attachment rates that are “as low and close to uniform as possible,” and improving the collection and availability of pole locations, an FCC official said.