Charter Communications will break ground early next year on a new headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, it said Tuesday. The 500,000-square-foot, 15-story building will be ready for occupancy in 2019, it said. Charter said it contracted with Connecticut developer Building and Land Technology for construction, with an option to expand the site into a two-building campus. Charter moved headquarters from St. Louis to Stamford in 2012 (see 1210040052). It said it's receiving $10 million in loans and $10 million in tax credits from the state in return for a pledge to add 1,100 headquarters jobs.
Charter Communications will break ground early next year on a new headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, it said Tuesday. The 500,000-square-foot, 15-story building will be ready for occupancy in 2019, it said. Charter said it contracted with Connecticut developer Building and Land Technology for construction, with an option to expand the site into a two-building campus. Charter moved headquarters from St. Louis to Stamford in 2012 (see 1210040052). It said it's receiving $10 million in loans and $10 million in tax credits from the state in return for a pledge to add 1,100 headquarters jobs.
Charter Communications will break ground early next year on a new headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, it said Tuesday. The 500,000-square-foot, 15-story building will be ready for occupancy in 2019, it said. Charter said it contracted with Connecticut developer Building and Land Technology for construction, with an option to expand the site into a two-building campus. Charter moved headquarters from St. Louis to Stamford in 2012 (see 1210040052). It said it's receiving $10 million in loans and $10 million in tax credits from the state in return for a pledge to add 1,100 headquarters jobs.
The National Public Safety Telecommunications Council’s Common Channel Naming Working Group seeks volunteers for its LTE Nationwide Interoperability Talkgroup Naming Project. After the American National Standards Institute approved the standard on common channel naming in January, the working group took a break, NPSTC said in a Monday news release. “With the advent of FirstNet, the Working Group will reactivate to develop common names for nationwide LTE interoperability talkgroups. Mission Critical Push to Talk will include LTE talkgroups that will function in a similar fashion to [land mobile radio] interoperability channels.”
The National Marine Fisheries Service announced the beginning of an ACE pilot to test filing of data required under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program for high-risk seafood. The pilot, which “will commence after” Oct. 1 and run until further notice, will be open to all customs brokers and importer self-filers for all commodities and all modes of transportation, NMFS said. Electronic filing of SIMP data is mandatory for certain high-risk species beginning on Jan. 1, 2018.
The ITU constitution is all about collective sharing and protection of spectrum, but rules on non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite systems violate those fundamentals, Thomas Choi, CEO of satellite operator ABS, blogged Friday on LinkedIn. A few companies control almost all C- and Ku-band spectrum in the geostationary arc, boxing out new operators and emerging nations, and a second round of "this spectrum imperialism" is coming with NGSO constellations, Choi said. Rules have some NGSO operators rushing to launch a handful of satellites before ITU filings expire to try to cement ITU priority to NGSO spectrum in the Ka- and Ku-bands, and the rules need to be addressed at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19), Choi said. He said NGSO coordination is a major technical challenge and regardless of exclusivity and forced sharing issues, it's impractical that more than a few NGSO systems can share bands globally. Deep-pocketed companies from richer nations "stand to lock up the usable frequencies in the NGSO arc," and developing countries "will find themselves once again ‘locked out’ of the exclusive club of spectrum owning nations." Choi said WRC-19 regulation changes should include stipulations NGSO systems that lack landing rights in any specific country should design systems to shut off beams when they cross over nations where they lack licenses, if such requests are made by that nation.
States and localities are increasingly facilitating advanced broadband deployment, including of 5G wireless systems needed for IoT and "smart" communities, said government and industry officials at a Telecommunications Industry Association event Wednesday. More work is needed to educate officials at all levels of government about the potential gains and the need to remove procedural and cost obstacles to deployment, but there have been improvements and more are expected, they said.
States and localities are increasingly facilitating advanced broadband deployment, including of 5G wireless systems needed for IoT and "smart" communities, said government and industry officials at a Telecommunications Industry Association event Wednesday. More work is needed to educate officials at all levels of government about the potential gains and the need to remove procedural and cost obstacles to deployment, but there have been improvements and more are expected, they said.
States and localities are increasingly facilitating advanced broadband deployment, including of 5G wireless systems needed for IoT and "smart" communities, said government and industry officials at a Telecommunications Industry Association event Wednesday. More work is needed to educate officials at all levels of government about the potential gains and the need to remove procedural and cost obstacles to deployment, but there have been improvements and more are expected, they said.
The FCC Disaster Information Reporting System has been unable to capture solid information from Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria, industry officials told us Wednesday. To report to DIRS requires internet access and, with most of the island offline, reports aren’t making it through. A U.S. broadcast official said virtually all radio stations are off-air, based on information from the Puerto Rican Broadcasters Association that is just starting to trickle out. The FCC is sending four staffers to Puerto Rico to gather verifiable information, officials said (see 1709260044). The agency didn't comment.