Livestreaming is a highly desired offering in over-the-top video, but numerous complications stand in the way of providers risking the effort to successfully deliver real-time events, said presenters on a Wednesday Stream TV session on livestreaming at scale.

The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Nov. 4 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):

Roku stock reached a 52-week low Thursday at $44.50 on an unusually negative holiday quarter outlook. Q4 guidance is for $800 million in net revenue, adjusted earnings before interest of negative $135 million and a $245 million loss. Shares edged up later in the day, closing at $51.84, 4.8% down.

Governments should never control the internet but should "preach self-restraint," said Roberto Viola, European Commission DG Connect director-general, Wednesday at a Prague hybrid in-person and virtual EC/Council conference on the future of the internet. The declaration for the future of the internet (DFI), now signed by 62 nations, says administrations will never legislate free speech, but self-restraint alone isn't enough, he said: Governments must tackle issues such as disinformation arising from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Broadband advocates, industry and academics urged policymakers Wednesday to develop standards for measuring broadband beyond speed. Some during the Marconi Society virtual event sought a focus on how local communities implement sustainable broadband programs funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Germany released the draft Sanctions Enforcement Act II, which looks to make structural improvements to its sanctions and anti-money laundering enforcement efforts, according to an unofficial translation. The first installment of the legislation passed in May. The new bill would create a Central Office for the Enforcement of Sanctions to enforce EU sanctions in Germany, provide administrative procedures to identify funds or economic resources owned or controlled by sanctioned individuals or entities, and let the Central Office appoint a special representative to monitor entities' sanctions compliance.

NARUC may seek clarity on states’ ability to oversee federal broadband investment outcomes. Under a draft resolution for its Nov. 13-16 meeting in New Orleans, NARUC would urge Congress and the FCC “to ensure that significant federal and state broadband policy objectives and investments are capable of delivering the results promised.” Congress or the FCC should “confirm or specify specific State authority to, among other things, enforce FCC or Congressionally established minimum service quality standards for federally subsidized services or provided over federally subsidized infrastructure, so that federally subsidized carriers operating in multiple jurisdictions would operate with minimum uniform requirements to perform their businesses,” the draft said. Once a state funds a broadband project and customers sign up, “from that point forward the State often has little ability to remedy customer complaints,” noted the proposed resolution. “Subscribers, including residential consumers, businesses, and many state lawmakers, do not understand this and are surprised that States regulate land line service of old, but not contemporary communications mediums.”

Crown Castle seeks a pre-motion conference to devise an “expedited briefing schedule” for its anticipated motion for summary judgment in its nearly year-old Telecommunications Act (TCA) infrastructure complaint against the town of Oyster Bay, New York, the company wrote U.S. District Judge Joan Azrack for Eastern New York in Central Islip Monday (docket 2:21-cv-06305). Crown Castle sued the town in November 2021 alleging TCA statutory violations.

The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

CBP announced that it has opened a formal Enforce and Protect Act investigation into whether Zinus evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders on chassis and subassemblies from China and has imposed interim measures, according to an Oct. 25 notice. The investigation was launched on July 20, following allegations by CIMC Intermodal Equipment LLC (CIMC) that Pitts Enterprises, Inc., classified imported chassis as products of Vietnam, without disclosing subassembly components of Chinese-origin.