The North American Numbering Council should establish a working group to "pinpoint the operational hurdles" that may arise with providing location information stemming from a 988 suicide hotline call, NTCA told the FCC Wireline Bureau Monday in docket 18-336 (see 2010190058). NTCA said routing calls to a local crisis center would let callers access local resources and allow mobilization of emergency services. "Ensuring that accurate location information is conveyed with a 988 call, and that such calls are routed properly to the appropriate local crisis center, will involve multiple stakeholders and technological hurdles," NTCA wrote, citing potential issues in remote areas in Alaska and on tribal lands. The group also raised privacy concerns. NANC meets Feb. 4 (see 2012310029).
Mobileye crossed a “threshold” and can build high-definition autonomous-vehicle (AV) maps, said CEO Amnon Shashua, senior vice president of its Intel parent. “We’re basically mapping the world, all automatically, everything done in the cloud.” It plans deployments in Detroit, Paris and Tokyo, he told a CES media briefing. “If we figure out how” to land regulatory OK, Mobileye will “deploy” in New York City in months, he said Monday. New York State Department of Transportation officials didn’t respond to questions. Self-driving robotaxis will be “somewhat of a game-changer when they become ubiquitous,” said Shashua. “Removing the driver from the equation could reduce the cost of transportation considerably, even rivaling the cost of public transportation.” He thinks affordable consumer AVs at scale with Level 4 autonomy -- one notch down from full autonomy -- are possible in 2025: “We’ll have a number of years of practicing from a regulatory point of view. Regulation is critical here. It’s difficult to leap directly to a consumer level from a regulatory point of view. Going through a regulation of a fleet is much easier.”
LG’s “next evolution” of OLED display technology, called OLED Evo, has the company’s “most advanced” panel and artificial intelligence-based processor, said the company at its virtual CES 2021 Media Day news conference. All CES exhibitor news conferences streamed Monday for the first time were prerecorded. A few exhibitors offered live Q&A sessions throughout the day.
One change the FCC could make to wireless infrastructure policies of the past four years after Democrats take control next week is October's rollback allowing streamlined processing of expansions for collocation deployments up to 30 feet outside macro tower compound boundaries. Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks dissented (see 2010270043). Of the infrastructure changes adopted under Chairman Ajit Pai, that one could be the most vulnerable because it's the last to be approved and mechanisms are available to reverse it, local officials said in recent interviews.
National Foreign Trade Council panelists addressing the future of U.S.-China relations agreed that the political climate won't allow President Joe Biden to reverse the Section 301 tariffs on China, even though they think those tariffs haven't been effective in achieving their goal of changing the competitive playing field with Chinese firms.
ViacomCBS is adding 14 more networks to Hulu + Live TV in a multiyear deal, it said Monday, including BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and TV Land. It includes continued carriage of CBS stations, CBS Sports Network, CW, Showtime and others.
ViacomCBS is adding 14 more networks to Hulu + Live TV in a multiyear deal, it said Monday, including BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and TV Land. It includes continued carriage of CBS stations, CBS Sports Network, CW, Showtime and others.
Sonos is “always looking at new ways to deliver the best possible experience for our customers,” emailed a spokesperson about the U.S. patent the company landed last week for reducing the stress of finding and playing back streamed digital audio content by emulating the functionality of an old-fashioned radio (see 2012290001). “We don’t have any further details to share at this time.”
ViacomCBS is adding 14 more networks to Hulu + Live TV in a multiyear deal, it said Monday, including BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Network, VH1, CMT, Nick Jr., MTV Classic and TV Land. It includes continued carriage of CBS stations, CBS Sports Network, Smithsonian Channel, CW and Showtime and others, said the company.
The FCC seeks comment on how to best distribute a $3.2 billion emergency broadband connectivity fund (see 2012210055), said a Wireline Bureau public notice Monday. Comments are due Jan. 25, replies Feb. 16, in docket 20-445. The funds are part of Congress' latest COVID-19 relief bill. Providers seeking to participate must be designated as eligible telecom carriers or approved by the commission. Eligible households will receive a discount of up to $50 monthly, those on tribal lands up to $75. "Our staff is moving quickly to stand up this program so we can quickly direct funding to consumers who need the help," said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said: "We need to find ways to get 100% of us connected in this country and this program is an essential part of making that happen.”