The global satellite machine-to-machine and IoT market should reach $2.9 billion in annual retail revenue by 2026, Northern Sky Research said Tuesday. NSR said land tracking, and particularly cargo tracking, likely will be the most profitable and competitive segment. It said most M2M and IoT services need only low bandwidth currently, but some verticals over the next decade will need additional bandwidth requirements for big data analysis, engine telematics and live data streaming, and those could be targeted by new mobile satellite service constellations. Low bandwidth and latency insensitive applications will be the focus of small satellite constellations, it said, as the business case for smallsat IoT-exclusive constellations is a question mark.
The global satellite machine-to-machine and IoT market should reach $2.9 billion in annual retail revenue by 2026, Northern Sky Research said Tuesday. NSR said land tracking, and particularly cargo tracking, likely will be the most profitable and competitive segment. It said most M2M and IoT services need only low bandwidth currently, but some verticals over the next decade will need additional bandwidth requirements for big data analysis, engine telematics and live data streaming, and those could be targeted by new mobile satellite service constellations. Low bandwidth and latency insensitive applications will be the focus of small satellite constellations, it said, as the business case for smallsat IoT-exclusive constellations is a question mark.
The global satellite machine-to-machine and IoT market should reach $2.9 billion in annual retail revenue by 2026, Northern Sky Research said Tuesday. NSR said land tracking, and particularly cargo tracking, likely will be the most profitable and competitive segment. It said most M2M and IoT services need only low bandwidth currently, but some verticals over the next decade will need additional bandwidth requirements for big data analysis, engine telematics and live data streaming, and those could be targeted by new mobile satellite service constellations. Low bandwidth and latency insensitive applications will be the focus of small satellite constellations, it said, as the business case for smallsat IoT-exclusive constellations is a question mark.
The FCC needs to work toward immediately restoring communications service to affected areas in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands before it considers longer term issues, said Chairman Ajit Pai in a news conference after a Public Safety Bureau report on the FCC response to storms Harvey, Irma and Maria at Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting. The commission is “focused like a laser beam” on restoration, Pai said, calling the situation in Puerto Rico "dire." Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said the FCC should hold field hearings in affected areas on how best to prepare for such disasters. The agency should “have the guts” to get out on the ground, she said. “You don’t pull together a report with only the information you amass from sitting in front of your keyboard,” said Rosenworcel. “You get out.”
Hurricane Maria had “a catastrophic impact on Puerto Rico’s communications networks,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in a statement Thursday. The agency is “proactively reaching out to communications providers in Puerto Rico to gather additional information about the situation on the ground and find out if there is anything that the Commission can do to assist with restoration efforts,” Pai said. The chairman tweeted: “Devastating news coming out of #PuertoRico after #HurricaneMaria; power knocked out, infrastructure destroyed.” Pai said in the release 95 percent of Puerto Rico’s cellsites are down. “Unfortunately, getting Puerto Rico’s communications networks up and running will be a challenging process, particularly given the power outages throughout the island,” Pai said. “The FCC stands ready to do whatever we can to help with this task.” The agency created a landing page for information about the storm. As of 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, both PSAPs in Puerto Rico are functioning normally, but in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) one 911 call center each in St. Croix and St. Thomas is having problems caused by the storm, said a report from the FCC’s Disaster Information Reporting System. All counties in Puerto Rico have more than 75 percent of their cellsites out of service, and 48 out of the country’s 78 counties have all of their cellsites down, the DIRS report said. In the USVI, 77 percent of cellsites are down, 60 percent or more in each county. “Since there are widespread power outages in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the FCC has received reports that large percentages of consumers are without either cable services or wireline service,” the report said. Only one TV station has reported being out of service in the affected area, but no other broadcasters in the area have reported in to DIRS, the FCC said.
Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) for the second straight year landed the contract from the Society for Information Display (SID) to produce the suite of “business track” conferences at the Display Week 2018 show, the consulting firm said in a Thursday announcement. Several changes are planned for the 2018 event, including a stronger emphasis at the SID Business Conference on executive “roundtables,” it said. The “market focus” conference on automotive displays will delve more deeply into “the impact of autonomous vehicles on the display market,” it said. “Semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles are likely to boost displays per vehicle and significantly expand the automotive display market.” DSCC was launched last year by former DisplaySearch CEO-founder Ross Young and Bob O’Brien, ex-director-marketing intelligence at Corning Glass Technologies (see 1606150021). DisplayWeek 2018 opens May 20 at the Los Angeles Convention Center for a six-day run.
An executive order released Sept. 21 by the White House outlined new sanctions on entities with links to North Korea. The order would prohibit any transfer, payment, export, withdrawal or other dealing in the property of any person Treasury determines to operate in the North Korean textile, transportation, manufacturing, medical, mining, IT, fishing, construction, energy or financial services industries. The order also bans any transactions involving anyone Treasury finds to own, control or operate any North Korean seaport, airport or land port of entry; anyone found to have engaged in at least one “significant” import from or export to North Korea of any goods, services or technology; and any North Korean who has engaged in commercial activity that generates revenue for the North Korean government or the Workers’ Party of Korea. The sanctions authorities are “in addition to” Commerce Department export control authorities, the order says.
SAN FRANCISCO -- An attorney for AT&T Mobility said the FCC -- not the FTC -- is the telco's main regulator and AT&T would be "happy" to defend against allegations that it throttled its data service without telling customers. Michael Kellogg, representing the telco before 11 judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during oral argument Tuesday, said he wasn't arguing against the idea of concurrent enforcement. But in this instance, Congress drew a distinction that the FCC is the primary regulator and the case is "right in its wheelhouse," he continued.
SAN FRANCISCO -- An attorney for AT&T Mobility said the FCC -- not the FTC -- is the telco's main regulator and AT&T would be "happy" to defend against allegations that it throttled its data service without telling customers. Michael Kellogg, representing the telco before 11 judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during oral argument Tuesday, said he wasn't arguing against the idea of concurrent enforcement. But in this instance, Congress drew a distinction that the FCC is the primary regulator and the case is "right in its wheelhouse," he continued.
Between wildfires in the West and hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the need for FirstNet is clearer than ever, Chair Sue Swenson said Thursday: “It’s not lost on us that what we’re doing is ever so critical.” Swenson opened the authority’s board meeting Thursday, streamed from Boulder, Colorado. Vice Chair Jeff Johnson said board members didn’t go to the storm-hit areas, at Swenson’s direction, because they didn’t want to get in the way. “There’s a time and a place for that,” said Johnson, a former fire chief. “As an incident commander for the majority of my career, I can tell you ‘not now’ is my thinking. We’ll talk later.”