The FCC press release as follows.

"The report and executive order passed today require carriers to block text messages that appear to be fraudulent and prohibit text messages from invalid, unassigned or unused numbers.

The ban also includes numbers that say they never send text messages, as well as numbers identified by government agencies and other high-profile entities as not being used for texting."

The FCC says complaints about scam text messages have increased from 3,300 to 18,900 per year from 2015 to 2022. the FCC notes that unlike scam bot calls, which are easy to ignore, people who receive text messages will almost always read them immediately. If a user interacts with them, it could lead to malware being downloaded to the phone, or the user being attacked by a phishing scheme.

According to a report released this month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Americans lost $10.3 billion to various online scams last year (currently about 70.658 billion CNY).

The report shows that the most common type of crime is phishing, with 300,497 victims falling for this scam and more than $52 million in fraud. “Phishing” is when unknown emails, text messages or phone calls claim to be from legitimate companies and ask victims to provide personal, financial or login information. Phishing is often successful because the phishing emails often resemble those sent by someone the victim knows, prompting them to click on an unsafe link.

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Currently, U.S. drones generally use a range of radio frequencies that do not require a license and are subject to the FCC’s regulatory requirements for low-power wireless communications, while some drones use experimental radio spectrum licenses.

In addition to the above-mentioned plan to provide 5G Hz spectrum resources specifically for drones, the FCC also announced that it will solicit community input on whether the current regulatory regime for radio communications can ensure that drones and terrestrial mobile communications can operate “interference-free” at the same time.

In addition, the FCC also proposed another proposed regulatory regime that would require U.S. agencies flying drones to apply for a radio license in the VHF band used by civil aviation if they want to communicate with civil air traffic control agencies and other civil aircraft.

FCC Chairman Jessica Rosenworcel (Jessica Rosenworcel) said that with the emergence of new technologies and products such as drones, the FCC must ensure that the U.S. radio frequency regulatory system to adapt to the new needs, the new regulatory system for U.S. disaster recovery, emergency relief, forest fire suppression and other work is very important.

Currently, U.S. drones are operated remotely, so they rely heavily on wireless communications between ground control sites and airborne drones to ensure proper flight, the FCC said.

The FCC said that with the growing popularity of drones in the United States, the risk of drone operations is increasing, such as some large drones will be transporting cargo or personnel, or into the airspace traditionally used by civilian airliners, which makes the drone operators a new demand for more reliable, non-interference radio frequency resources.

In April 2021, another U.S. regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration, reportedly launched a number of regulatory regimes for drones, primarily related to small drones flying over ground-based residents and flying at night.

This regulatory regime required U.S. drone manufacturers to begin producing drones equipped with so-called “remote IDs” within a year and a half.

“Remote ID” is equivalent to providing an identification system for aerial drones, which are required to broadcast their identity information to other aircraft via radio.

The FAA’s original draft regulation had required drone operators to give their devices access to the Internet to transmit aerial drone location information at all times, but the final drone ID regulations removed those requirements. In July of last year, however, a federal appeals court upheld the FAA’s addition of these elements to the regulatory regime.

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