Office of Communications Business Opportunities [Federal Communications Commission] Law and Legal Definition
The Office of Communications Business Opportunities (OCBO) is a staff office of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The OCBO promotes telecommunications business opportunities for small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses.
The OCBO functions include :
a. working with entrepreneurs, industry, public interest organizations, individuals, and others to provide information about FCC policies, increase ownership and employment opportunities, foster a diversity of voices and viewpoints over the airwaves, and encourage participation in FCC proceedings;
b. mailing information on Commission notices and new service opportunities to those within OCBO database of over 3,000 small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses and other interested entities;
c. conducting auction seminars to inform the public about new licensing opportunities, as well as seminars concerning new technologies and business opportunities utilizing unlicensed spectrum;
d. assisting small businesses in understanding and complying with the FCC's rules, the OCBO web site provides a comprehensive list of small business compliance guides;
e. acting as the principal adviser to the Chairman and the Commissioners on issues, rule makings, and policies affecting small, women- and minority-owned communications businesses; and
f. representing the FCC in various matters coordinated with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Legal Definition list
- Office of Communications Business Opportunities [Federal Communications Commission]
- Office of Commercial and Business Affairs [EEB/CBA] [Department of State]
- Office of Civil Rights [Department of State]
- Office of Citizenship [Immigration]
- Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons [CBW]
- Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
- Office of Community Planning and Development [HUD]
- Office of Community Services [OCS]
- Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs [Department of Labor]
- Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations [HUD]
- Office of Consumer Litigation
