“The best things Amazon will deliver to Queens won’t come in a box,” says an Amazon flyer that appeared in Queens residential mailboxes this weekend trumpeting its new Long Island City headquarters. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), a Queens native who spearheaded the bid to land Amazon, calls the deal a “lightning rod” for “rhetoric” on both political “extremes” (see 1811190012). Wednesday’s hearing is before the council’s Finance Committee. The council promises to give the public the chance to testify at a future hearing and encourages questions to the live hearings through social media. The theme of the first hearing Dec. 12, "Exposing the Closed-Door Process,” reflected council frustrations. The Queens development is one of the two HQ2s, with the other in Northern Virginia (see 1811130013).

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials(AASHTO) raised concerns on a 5G Automotive Association waiver request to deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything technology (C-V2X) in the 5.9 GHz band's upper 20 MHz. The band is allocated to dedicated short-range communications. Comments were initially due Thursday at the FCC and some were posted Monday in docket 18-357. Most early commenters supported granting the waiver.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials(AASHTO) raised concerns on a 5G Automotive Association waiver request to deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything technology (C-V2X) in the 5.9 GHz band's upper 20 MHz. The band is allocated to dedicated short-range communications. Comments were initially due Thursday at the FCC and some were posted Monday in docket 18-357. Most early commenters supported granting the waiver.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials(AASHTO) raised concerns on a 5G Automotive Association waiver request to deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything technology (C-V2X) in the 5.9 GHz band's upper 20 MHz. The band is allocated to dedicated short-range communications. Comments were initially due Thursday at the FCC and some were posted Monday in docket 18-357. Most early commenters supported granting the waiver.

“The best things Amazon will deliver to Queens won’t come in a box,” says an Amazon flyer that appeared in Queens residential mailboxes over the weekend trumpeting its new Long Island City headquarters as “a great opportunity for New York.”

“The best things Amazon will deliver to Queens won’t come in a box,” says an Amazon flyer that appeared in Queens residential mailboxes over the weekend trumpeting its new Long Island City headquarters as “a great opportunity for New York.”

Public safety will see more wearables for dispatch and hardened LTE handsets in 2019, Public Safety Network co-founder Jason Karp blogged Wednesday. Other predictions: consolidation in the land-mobile radio market. “Significant strides being made in public safety LTE are putting pressure on LMR providers to innovate and rethink their legacy business models,” he said. There will be an “uptick in public safety technology startups” and public safety broadband networks will be offered in at least three other countries this year based on FirstNet's success, he said.

Public safety will see more wearables for dispatch and hardened LTE handsets in 2019, Public Safety Network co-founder Jason Karp blogged Wednesday. Other predictions: consolidation in the land-mobile radio market. “Significant strides being made in public safety LTE are putting pressure on LMR providers to innovate and rethink their legacy business models,” he said. There will be an “uptick in public safety technology startups” and public safety broadband networks will be offered in at least three other countries this year based on FirstNet's success, he said.

Public safety will see more wearables for dispatch and hardened LTE handsets in 2019, Public Safety Network co-founder Jason Karp blogged Wednesday. Other predictions: consolidation in the land-mobile radio market. “Significant strides being made in public safety LTE are putting pressure on LMR providers to innovate and rethink their legacy business models,” he said. There will be an “uptick in public safety technology startups” and public safety broadband networks will be offered in at least three other countries this year based on FirstNet's success, he said.

The National Retail Federation blasted trade legislation expected to have been introduced Thursday in the House that would grant broader presidential authority to raise U.S. tariffs on foreign goods. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., told Fox News Wednesday he planned to introduce the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act to give President Donald Trump the “tools” necessary “to make sure that we’re not robbed anymore” on allegedly unfair tariff rates, he said. The EU slaps a 68 percent tariff on imported butter produced in Duffy's 7th congressional district in Wisconsin, while European butter enters the U.S. at only a 3.8 percent levy rate, he said. His legislation would move the U.S. “further away from a tariff war and brings us tariff peace,” he said. Duffy's plan now is to introduce the bill next week after he lands more co-sponsors, a spokesperson told us late Thursday. NRF Senior Vice President David French said Congress “should be working to protect local communities from an escalated trade war” brought on by the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports and China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. Duffy’s “misguided” legislation “would do the exact opposite, giving the executive branch limitless power to raise taxes in the form of tariffs,” said French. “Congress has already ceded far too much of its clear constitutional authority over tariffs, and we are witnessing the consequences unfold across the country. The idea that Congress would make matters even worse by further abdicating its role on trade policy is simply unconscionable.” CTA shares "similar concerns" as NRF about Duffy's legislation, emailed a spokesperson Thursday.