The video bundle either has long legs or is on its last legs, speakers said Monday at an FCC-hosted workshop on the state of the video market.
The video bundle either has long legs or is on its last legs, speakers said Monday at an FCC-hosted workshop on the state of the video market.
ProSource has added 19 custom integrators, the buying group said Thursday. All generate at least $1 million revenue annually, it said. The new members “strengthen our group” with various skill sets ranging from traditional consumer electronics and custom integration to information technology, said ProSource Membership Director Sherry Dantonio. The member adds are Audio Video Concepts & Design, Indian Trail, North Carolina; AV Design Group, Bridgehampton, New York; Bravo AV Consulting, Bernardsville, New Jersey; CommTech, Pierre, South Dakota; DB Media Solutions, Southlake, Texas; Electronics Professionals, Lafayette, Louisiana; Greenhome Automations, Miami; Home Theater Evolutions, Sugar Land, Texas; Imagine Audio Video, Franklin, Tennessee; Impact Audio Video, Ocean City, Maryland; Integrity Sound, Sarasota, Florida; National Technology Integrators, Rockville, Maryland; Next Level Audio & Video, Farmington, New Mexico; Phoenix AVS, Broomall, Pennsylvania; Real Audio Video, Lindon, Utah; Simply Automated, Lawrence, Pennsylvania; Southeaston Systems, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; Westfair TV, Fairfield, Connecticut; and Woody's Home, Pasadena, California.
The Senate may soon take up the bipartisan Small Business Broadband Deployment Act compromise that House lawmakers approved 411-0 Wednesday, its Senate sponsor told us. The measure, formerly controversial and partisan before a compromise deal, would now for five years exempt ISPs with fewer than 250,000 subscribers from FCC net neutrality order enhanced transparency requirements and compel an FCC report on the topic.
The Senate may soon take up the bipartisan Small Business Broadband Deployment Act compromise that House lawmakers approved 411-0 Wednesday, its Senate sponsor told us. The measure, formerly controversial and partisan before a compromise deal, would now for five years exempt ISPs with fewer than 250,000 subscribers from FCC net neutrality order enhanced transparency requirements and compel an FCC report on the topic.
DoCoMo Pacific wants to put in a new submarine cable system connecting Guam with the Commonwealth of the North Mariana islands of Saipan, Rota and Tinian. In an FCC International Bureau filing Monday, DoCoMo said the Atisa system -- Atisa meaning "to brighten" or "to increase" in the Chamorro language native to Guam and Commonwealth islands -- will be run on a non-common-carrier basis, with its capacity to be used by DoCoMo retail and enterprise customers. It also said it expects to start commercial operation of the Atisa system in Q2 2017, and FCC grant of a cable landing license by December 2016 is "of paramount importance." Atisa will avoid the Tinian Channel where the Mariana-Guam Cable was severed in July, leading to "a nearly-total communications blackout" in the Commonwealth islands, and instead will go directly between Guam and Saipan in deeper water, said DoCoMo, a subsidiary of Japan's NTT DoCoMo.
DoCoMo Pacific wants to put in a new submarine cable system connecting Guam with the Commonwealth of the North Mariana islands of Saipan, Rota and Tinian. In an FCC International Bureau filing Monday, DoCoMo said the Atisa system -- Atisa meaning "to brighten" or "to increase" in the Chamorro language native to Guam and Commonwealth islands -- will be run on a non-common-carrier basis, with its capacity to be used by DoCoMo retail and enterprise customers. It also said it expects to start commercial operation of the Atisa system in Q2 2017, and FCC grant of a cable landing license by December 2016 is "of paramount importance." Atisa will avoid the Tinian Channel where the Mariana-Guam Cable was severed in July, leading to "a nearly-total communications blackout" in the Commonwealth islands, and instead will go directly between Guam and Saipan in deeper water, said DoCoMo, a subsidiary of Japan's NTT DoCoMo.
Sprint said “flawed” FCC proposals to modernize Lifeline USF would harm provision of subsidized phone services to millions of low-income Americans. Commission plans to mandate unlimited mobile talk are unrealistic and plans to eventually withdraw Lifeline support for stand-alone mobile, but not fixed, voice service violate competitive neutrality principles, Sprint said. Separately, General Communications (GCI) said the FCC’s proposed minimum Lifeline standards could render parts of rural Alaska ineligible for the program. The agency had no comment. The FCC tentatively intends to vote March 31 on a draft order to extend Lifeline USF subsidies to broadband and make administrative changes (see 1603080024 and 1603080054).
The Senate Commerce Committee pulled the two-year FCC Reauthorization Act (S-2644) from its Wednesday markup agenda, despite persistent efforts to include the bill sponsored by Chairman John Thune, R-S.D. Democrats generally backed the reauthorization effort but said more time is needed to review the proposal, one staffer told us Tuesday. Amendments were already filed.
Sprint said “flawed” FCC proposals to modernize Lifeline USF would harm provision of subsidized phone services to millions of low-income Americans. Commission plans to mandate unlimited mobile talk are unrealistic and plans to eventually withdraw Lifeline support for stand-alone mobile, but not fixed, voice service violate competitive neutrality principles, Sprint said. Separately, General Communications (GCI) said the FCC’s proposed minimum Lifeline standards could render parts of rural Alaska ineligible for the program. The agency had no comment. The FCC tentatively intends to vote March 31 on a draft order to extend Lifeline USF subsidies to broadband and make administrative changes (see 1603080024 and 1603080054).