As the countdown to the Super Bowl kicks into high gear, retailers are making their final big pitches to push out 2017 TV inventory, while dancing around the moniker to avoid trampling on the NFL’s Super Bowl name trademark and risking a “cease-and-desist” letter from the league.
House Communications Subcommittee Republicans and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., released separate sets of legislation Friday aimed at encouraging broadband deployment. The House Communications Republicans' bills were a third wave of additional legislation that followed the release earlier this month of overarching principles on broadband infrastructure before House work on a broader infrastructure bill to follow White House anticipated release of its legislative package. Lawmakers filed other sets of broadband legislation Tuesday and Wednesday (see 1801110058, 1801160048 and 1801170055).
House Communications Subcommittee Republicans and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., released separate sets of legislation Friday aimed at encouraging broadband deployment. The House Communications Republicans' bills were a third wave of additional legislation that followed the release earlier this month of overarching principles on broadband infrastructure before House work on a broader infrastructure bill to follow White House anticipated release of its legislative package. Lawmakers filed other sets of broadband legislation Tuesday and Wednesday (see 1801110058, 1801160048 and 1801170055).
Senators debated whether to invoke cloture on legislation reauthorizing Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authority Tuesday, despite pushback from senators seeking stronger privacy protections and urging the Senate to have a fuller debate on the bill’s privacy implications. "What unites our bipartisan coalition is we strongly oppose this end run around our Constitution," Ron Wyden, D-Ore., told reporters. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; and Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined Wyden in pushing for additional privacy protections to be added to the bill, in a news briefing earlier Tuesday.
A draft FCC order would give $500 million in new funding to cooperatives and other small rural carriers, and set "strong new rules to prevent abuse of the high-cost program," the agency said Tuesday. The item circulated by Chairman Ajit Pai to colleagues proposes changes intended to improve the high-cost USF program's "effectiveness and efficiency in promoting rural broadband deployment, including the use of a Tribal Broadband Factor to enable better access on Tribal lands," said a release. It contains a report and order, an order on reconsideration and an NPRM, an FCC official told us. An agency spokesman confirmed the tribal broadband factor proposal is in the NPRM.
A draft FCC order would give $500 million in new funding to cooperatives and other small rural carriers, and set "strong new rules to prevent abuse of the high-cost program," the agency said Tuesday. The item circulated by Chairman Ajit Pai to colleagues proposes changes intended to improve the high-cost USF program's "effectiveness and efficiency in promoting rural broadband deployment, including the use of a Tribal Broadband Factor to enable better access on Tribal lands," said a release. It contains a report and order, an order on reconsideration and an NPRM, an FCC official told us. An agency spokesman confirmed the tribal broadband factor proposal is in the NPRM.
HDR10+ Technologies, a limited liability company formed in Delaware, filed dual applications Jan. 2 to register the stylized logo unveiled at CES for the Fox-Panasonic-Samsung royalty-free dynamic-metadata high-dynamic-range platform announced just before IFA (see 1708280018), Patent and Trademark Office records show. The two filings -- one for a range of possible consumer tech device applications, the other for "software as a service" uses and for videogaming and streaming-video purposes -- were filed about 36 hours before the “3C” consortium debuted the logo in a pre-CES announcement that said it was gaining “momentum” for the platform.
Senators debated whether to invoke cloture on legislation reauthorizing Section 702 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authority Tuesday, despite pushback from senators seeking stronger privacy protections and urging the Senate to have a fuller debate on the bill’s privacy implications. "What unites our bipartisan coalition is we strongly oppose this end run around our Constitution," Ron Wyden, D-Ore., told reporters. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Steve Daines, R-Mont.; and Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined Wyden in pushing for additional privacy protections to be added to the bill, in a news briefing earlier Tuesday.
The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing new regulations on the requirements and procedures of its planned Commerce Trusted Trader Program (CTTP) for high-risk seafood imports. Under the proposed rule, participating importers would have to maintain an “internal control system” of product tracing and verification and submit to annual third-party audits. In return, the importer would benefit from reduced entry filing requirements under the NMFS Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which took effect Jan. 1.
House Communications Subcommittee Republicans delivered their opening legislative response Thursday to President Donald Trump's executive actions aimed at improving broadband deployments in rural areas. Trump signed an executive order and presidential memo Monday on rural broadband issues (see 1801080063), which some communications sector officials and lobbyists have since said they view as limited in scope. Several lobbyists told us before the Thursday announcement that legislation from telecom-focused lawmakers would be needed to bolster Trump's actions.