Google's Project Soli, even at the higher power levels needed to make it effective, "can reasonably coexist" with other 60 GHz band users like remote sensing satellite equipment or radio astronomy, company representatives told an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, said a docket 18-70 ex parte posting Tuesday. Google said it needs higher peak effective isotropic radiated power and transmitted conducted power levels for U.S.-Europe operational equivalence than now allowed since current power levels result in more blind spots and missed motions for the hand gesture-detecting radar. It said 60 GHz Wi-Fi is "only marginally affected" with sometimes a 10 percent throughput reduction and that the Earth exploration satellite and radio astronomy applications won't see harmful effects from airborne use of Soli because of the attenuation from inside a plane to outside and slim odds of multiple simultaneous uses of Soli at low altitudes during landing directly above a radio astronomy site. Google is seeking a waiver to allow higher power levels (see 1803120031).

Google's Project Soli, even at the higher power levels needed to make it effective, "can reasonably coexist" with other 60 GHz band users like remote sensing satellite equipment or radio astronomy, company representatives told an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, said a docket 18-70 ex parte posting Tuesday. Google said it needs higher peak effective isotropic radiated power and transmitted conducted power levels for U.S.-Europe operational equivalence than now allowed since current power levels result in more blind spots and missed motions for the hand gesture-detecting radar. It said 60 GHz Wi-Fi is "only marginally affected" with sometimes a 10 percent throughput reduction and that the Earth exploration satellite and radio astronomy applications won't see harmful effects from airborne use of Soli because of the attenuation from inside a plane to outside and slim odds of multiple simultaneous uses of Soli at low altitudes during landing directly above a radio astronomy site. Google is seeking a waiver to allow higher power levels (see 1803120031).

Google's Project Soli, even at the higher power levels needed to make it effective, "can reasonably coexist" with other 60 GHz band users like remote sensing satellite equipment or radio astronomy, company representatives told an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, said a docket 18-70 ex parte posting Tuesday. Google said it needs higher peak effective isotropic radiated power and transmitted conducted power levels for U.S.-Europe operational equivalence than now allowed since current power levels result in more blind spots and missed motions for the hand gesture-detecting radar. It said 60 GHz Wi-Fi is "only marginally affected" with sometimes a 10 percent throughput reduction and that the Earth exploration satellite and radio astronomy applications won't see harmful effects from airborne use of Soli because of the attenuation from inside a plane to outside and slim odds of multiple simultaneous uses of Soli at low altitudes during landing directly above a radio astronomy site. Google is seeking a waiver to allow higher power levels (see 1803120031).

A hallmark of the Ajit Pai FCC chairmanship is that he has almost complete support from fellow Republicans, who have maintained party discipline. Republican Mike O’Rielly has had one full dissent and 12 partial dissents, our review found. Former officials told us Pai has no reason to complain.

A hallmark of the Ajit Pai FCC chairmanship is that he has almost complete support from fellow Republicans, who have maintained party discipline. Republican Mike O’Rielly has had one full dissent and 12 partial dissents, our review found. Former officials told us Pai has no reason to complain.

Skyway Towers said tribal review of tower projects continues to slow deployment, as it expects commissioners to vote on related issues as soon as next month (see 1808300028). Skyway thanked the FCC for the work it has done in cutting regulatory red tape, but said a March order is slowing some projects. The order cuts red tape for tribal reviews of projects off tribal lands and makes clear applicants “have no legal obligation to pay upfront fees” when seeking tribal comment on proposed deployments (see 1803220027). “Other industries,” from fast food chains to gas stations, can build outlets “without being required to have those proposed sites reviewed by the tribal nations,” Skyway said. “By contrast, our industry must submit the very same locations for analysis by the tribes,” the tower company said in a filing posted Thursday in docket 17-79. “Recent actions by the Commission attempting to remedy the problem have actually slowed deployment.” Skyway said since the March order, some tribes disbanded offices they once had to review sites and “off-loaded the burden of those reviews to the Commission staff.” The FCC and groups representing the tribes didn’t comment. “WIA strongly supported the FCC’s efforts to lower barriers to wireless infrastructure deployment in its March order by addressing a number of outdated and unreasonably burdensome tribal review processes,” said Wireless Infrastructure Association President Jonathan Adelstein in response. “Moving forward, we remain confident that the commission is implementing the new process effectively to encourage investment and deployment of wireless infrastructure.”

Sonos has a global “portfolio of 630+ issued patents and 570 applications covering all manner of tech innovation,” spokeswoman Lizzie Manganiello emailed us Wednesday on our query about the company’s plans to commercialize the invention for which it landed a U.S. patent Tuesday on techniques of embedding ads as “structured metadata” in a “digital media playback system” (see 1808280002). “Some of these inventions have made their way into Sonos products, many have not yet, and some never will,” said Manganiello. “We’re not going to comment on our roadmap other than to say we won’t do anything that degrades the consumer listening experience.”

Sonos has a global “portfolio of 630+ issued patents and 570 applications covering all manner of tech innovation,” spokeswoman Lizzie Manganiello emailed us Wednesday on our query about the company’s plans to commercialize the invention for which it landed a U.S. patent Tuesday on techniques of embedding ads as “structured metadata” in a “digital media playback system” (see 1808280002). “Some of these inventions have made their way into Sonos products, many have not yet, and some never will,” said Manganiello. “We’re not going to comment on our roadmap other than to say we won’t do anything that degrades the consumer listening experience.”

Sonos has a global “portfolio of 630+ issued patents and 570 applications covering all manner of tech innovation,” spokeswoman Lizzie Manganiello emailed us Wednesday on our query about the company’s plans to commercialize the invention for which it landed a U.S. patent Tuesday on techniques of embedding ads as “structured metadata” in a “digital media playback system” (see 1808280002). “Some of these inventions have made their way into Sonos products, many have not yet, and some never will,” said Manganiello. “We’re not going to comment on our roadmap other than to say we won’t do anything that degrades the consumer listening experience.”

BERLIN -- IFA executives are hedging their bets on GfK forecasts that the global consumer electronics industry will grow marginally in sales this year because the U.S. trade wars with China and the EU make it impossible to foretell what the fallout might be on the tech industry, they told IFA’s annual opening news conference Wednesday. GfK estimates global CE shipments will rise 0.8 percent in 2018 to 854 billion euros ($999 billion), after a 1 percent increase in the year’s first half, said the executives.