FCC Again Exceeds Disposal Goal for Applications, Complaints
The FCC reviewed and processed 916,117 applications and complaints last fiscal year, meeting its speed of disposal (SOD) goals 98 percent of the time, said its FY 2016 performance report Tuesday. That was the same percentage for FY 2015, and…
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the FCC said it met its SOD goal of 96 percent in six of the past seven years. Both the Media and International bureaus saw improvements in SOD, with the former going from 85 percent in FY 2015 to 91 percent in FY 2016, while the latter went from 76 percent to 82 percent, the FCC said. The offices of Consumer and Governmental Affairs and of Engineering Technology and the Wireline and Public Safety and Homeland Security bureaus all were in the 99th percentile, while the Wireless Bureau was in the 98th.