GTI Corp. and others sought FCC special temporary authority to deploy, connect and test U.S. parts of the Southeast Asia-U.S. undersea cable system, pending approval of their cable landing license application. They said an STA is needed for 180 days starting Oct. 1 to avoid a potential delay and added costs in building the system, which is also being reviewed by executive branch departments. Applicants said they believe they're nearing the end of the "Team Telecom" review, but can't be certain it will be completed by early October, "when the system -- which has already been manufactured in its entirety -- will be loaded on cable ships" to begin marine installation. "System loading sets in motion a series of interrelated processes the delay or rescheduling of which would impose substantial costs on the Applicants and raise concerns about continuing cable ship availability," said their STA request Wednesday in file No. SCL-LIC-20150626-00016. The system will connect Indonesia, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and California, adding competition and capacity, and avoiding the "disaster-prone Luzon Strait," it said.
GTI Corp. and others sought FCC special temporary authority to deploy, connect and test U.S. parts of the Southeast Asia-U.S. undersea cable system, pending approval of their cable landing license application. They said an STA is needed for 180 days starting Oct. 1 to avoid a potential delay and added costs in building the system, which is also being reviewed by executive branch departments. Applicants said they believe they're nearing the end of the "Team Telecom" review, but can't be certain it will be completed by early October, "when the system -- which has already been manufactured in its entirety -- will be loaded on cable ships" to begin marine installation. "System loading sets in motion a series of interrelated processes the delay or rescheduling of which would impose substantial costs on the Applicants and raise concerns about continuing cable ship availability," said their STA request Wednesday in file No. SCL-LIC-20150626-00016. The system will connect Indonesia, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and California, adding competition and capacity, and avoiding the "disaster-prone Luzon Strait," it said.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler again pressed for action on public safety communications, during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. He promised many updates on the commission’s broadband and spectrum efforts, noting items to come up in the final months of the Obama administration. "Our work is far from done," Wheeler told senators.
Interference problems will only get worse as a result of explosive wireless growth, said Dale Hatfield, former chief of the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, kicking off a Silicon Flatirons conference Thursday on the next generation of interference resolution and enforcement. The conference was streamed from Boulder, Colorado.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler again pressed for action on public safety communications, during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday. He promised many updates on the commission’s broadband and spectrum efforts, noting items to come up in the final months of the Obama administration. "Our work is far from done," Wheeler told senators.
Interference problems will only get worse as a result of explosive wireless growth, said Dale Hatfield, former chief of the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology, kicking off a Silicon Flatirons conference Thursday on the next generation of interference resolution and enforcement. The conference was streamed from Boulder, Colorado.
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel objects to some licensing provisions in the set-top box order circulating from Chairman Tom Wheeler, she told senators Thursday during a Commerce Committee oversight hearing. Commerce leaders and several members of both parties slammed aspects of the order, set for a Sept. 29 FCC vote, but Wheeler defended the item, which he said is "90 percent" ready to go. Some in the pay-TV industry have been opposing the draft (see 1609140064).
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel objects to some licensing provisions in the set-top box order circulating from Chairman Tom Wheeler, she told senators Thursday during a Commerce Committee oversight hearing. Commerce leaders and several members of both parties slammed aspects of the order, set for a Sept. 29 FCC vote, but Wheeler defended the item, which he said is "90 percent" ready to go. Some in the pay-TV industry have been opposing the draft (see 1609140064).
Using “predictive time” to turn a TV from sleep to active mode based on previously used program schedules can wake a set more quickly than conventional methods with no increase in power consumption, said a U.S. patent (9,445,038) that Vizio landed Tuesday from the Patent and Trademark Office. Standby power consumption on large-screen TVs “has dropped substantially over the past 10 years,” said the patent, which names Vizio Chief Technology Officer Matthew McRae as the inventor and was filed at the PTO in January 2014. TVs previously turned off power to the display screen when the user would actually turn off the device, the patent said. “In a continual quest to save power, televisions often now turn off power to complete subassemblies." When the user turns the set back on, the process of rebooting the set’s processors “can take anywhere from tens of seconds to over a minute,” and that “has the appearance to users of being an inordinate amount of time,” it said. Using the “present invention,” the amount of time it should take the TV to come alive “should be on the order of less than a second,” it said. Wake-up times “become more refined as time passes,” because a TV can be brought out of sleep “based on long term program selections from an electronic programming guide,” it said. The invention envisions “a database that captures user initiated turn on times and program selections of the television,” it said. “The database engine processes the database when the user turns the device off and makes a determination of when the device is most likely to be turned back on based on historical program selections. The determination results in the device being placed into a deep sleep or hibernation state, and brought back to a near operational state when it is determined that the user is most likely to want to turn the device back on.” Vizio representatives didn’t comment Wednesday on plans to commercialize the invention.
The FCC Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council approved reports aimed at improving emergency communications in the U.S. Wednesday's meeting was the current CSRIC’s sixth. The FCC is to take up changes to rules for wireless emergency alerts (WEA) at the Sept. 29 commissioner meeting (see 1609080083). None of the reports approved Wednesday was immediately available.