Office of Communications Business Opportunities

About OCBO

The Office of Communications Business Opportunities (OCBO) promotes telecommunications business opportunities for small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses. To this end, OCBO works 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. OCBO also mails information on Commission notices and new service opportunities to those within our database of over 3,000 small, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses and other interested entities.

OCBO periodically co-hosts auction seminars to inform the public about new licensing opportunities, as well as seminars concerning new technologies and business opportunities utilizing unlicenced spectrum.

To assist small businesses in understanding and complying with the FCC's rules, the OCBO web site provides a comprehensive list of small business compliance guides.

OCBO acts as the principal advisor to the Chairman and the Commissioners on issues, rulemakings, and policies affecting small, women- and minority-owned communications businesses. OCBO also represents the FCC in various matters coordinated with the U.S. Small Business Administration, including Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Small Business Act matters.

We hope that our web page, as well as the wealth of other FCC web site information, assists you in pursuing your telecommunications objectives. Please let us know of any additional features or information that we might add to our web page, to assist you.

Office of Communications Business Opportunities
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554

Telephone: (202) 418-0990
Facsimile: (202) 418-0235

07/15/04
Eric Malinen Named FCC Liaison to U.S. Small Business Administration
News Release: Word | Acrobat

06/25/04
FCC Announces Small Entity Compliance Guide Program
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2/12/04
Section 257 Triennial Report to Congress
Report: Word | Acrobat
Abernathy Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat

11/6/03
FCC Office of Communications Business Opportunities Hosts Small Business Regulatory Training Program
News Release: Word | Acrobat

10/18/02
Carolyn Fleming Williams Named Director, FCC Office of Communications Business Opportunities
News Release: Acrobat

5/2/02
FCC Holds 2002 Small Business Financing Seminar.
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4/17/02
Carolyn A. Fleming Named Acting Director, Office of Communications Business Opportunities.

4/9/02
OCBO to Sponsor Small Business Financing Seminar on Thursday, May 2, 2002.

12/12/00
Reminder to Small Businesses: SBA's Office of the National Ombudsman is Available to Assist with Federal Enforcement Matters

8/10/00
FCC Releases Report on Identifying and Eliminating Market Entry Barriers for Entrepreneurs and Other Small Businesses: A Triennial Report to Congress on market entry barriers in the communications industry that describes the efforts of the Commission to reduce market entry barriers facing entrepreneurs and other small businesses in the telecommunications industry, including revisions in the Commission's rules and policies, organizational structure, and administrative requirements.

• U.S. Small Business Administration

• U.S. Small Business Administration-Office of Advocacy

• U.S. Small Business Administration-Ombudsman

• U.S. Small Business Administration-Office of Size Standards

• National Telecommunications and Information Administration

• Rural Utilities Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

OCBO periodically sends small-business-related news and information to approximately 3,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs via e-mail, facsimile, and postal mail. To facilitate your receipt of these materials, please fill out and submit the form below.