A House Republican warned low-power TV (LPTV) broadcasters and translators that other “powerful” forces are seeking their spectrum and will exert intense lobbying power in Washington to acquire it. House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., listened to multiple stakeholders outlining anxieties about the FCC’s broadcast TV incentive auction, in a discussion lasting more than an hour in his home district.
Google’s planned restructuring of its corporate apparatus and placing the company under the auspices of the Alphabet holding company (see 1508100066) also drew attention to the URL of the website that Alphabet CEO Larry Page chose to announce the restructuring -- abc.xyz. The .xyz domain, administered by the XYZ.com registry, topped the new gTLD market at our deadline Tuesday with a 16.5 percent share, nTLDstats said. The registry has sold more than 1.14 million .xyz domain names.
The FCC has looked at the impact of the incentive auction on low-power TV, said Incentive Auction Task Force Vice Chairman Howard Symons on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU(FM) Washington Tuesday. Symons was responding to comments from LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition Director Mike Gravino, who said on the show that the FCC should have studied the auction’s effects on LPTV stations before deciding to exclude them from the incentive auction. “Our starting point is the statute, what Congress told us to do,” Symons said.
Google’s planned restructuring of its corporate apparatus and placing the company under the auspices of the Alphabet holding company (see 1508100066) also drew attention to the URL of the website that Alphabet CEO Larry Page chose to announce the restructuring -- abc.xyz. The .xyz domain, administered by the XYZ.com registry, topped the new gTLD market at our deadline Tuesday with a 16.5 percent share, nTLDstats said. The registry has sold more than 1.14 million .xyz domain names.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau sought comment Monday on an application by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol to modify its private land mobile radio license by adding three new 800 MHz channels to its license for the area in and around Salisbury. “North Carolina states that two channels currently licensed at its High Peak site in Burke County, NC are ‘impacted by interference from the City of Salisbury, North Carolina’ and that ‘on-air experience showed these two channels un-useable,'" the bureau said. “Consequently, North Carolina seeks to replace the two channels receiving interference with two alternate channels. It also seeks to add a third channel to the site to compensate for ‘increased traffic.’” Comments are due Sept. 9, replies Sept. 24.
Comments are due Sept. 8 on a public notice on the Land Mobile Communications Council’s proposed updated interference criteria allowing new, full-power, interstitial 12.5 kHz “offset” channels in the 809-817/854-862 MHz band (see 1505270015), the FCC Public Safety and Wireless bureaus said Friday. “Because we believe that the record in this proceeding would benefit from parties’ views on LMCC’s latest proposal, we seek comment on the revised and updated criteria,” the bureaus said in the July 24 PN.
The FCC kicked off its annual inquiry into whether broadband is being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion to all Americans, pursuant to Section 706 of the Telecom Act. The notice of inquiry approved by commissioners Thursday contemplates retaining the agency's 25/3 Mbps broadband definition for terrestrial fixed services while seeking comment on whether the commission should include terrestrial mobile and satellite fixed services in its broadband assessment, FCC officials and a release said.
The FCC kicked off its annual inquiry into whether broadband is being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion to all Americans, pursuant to Section 706 of the Telecom Act. The notice of inquiry approved by commissioners Thursday contemplates retaining the agency's 25/3 Mbps broadband definition for terrestrial fixed services while seeking comment on whether the commission should include terrestrial mobile and satellite fixed services in its broadband assessment, FCC officials and a release said.
Iridium is a step closer to its Iridium Certus broadband service. The company said Wednesday it received the first broadband core transceiver prototypes for interoperability testing on the Iridium Next satellite network infrastructure. The prototypes will be used by manufacturing partners to design and build products for the aeronautical, maritime and land mobile markets that will be compatible with its broadband service. Next satellites are expected to start launching late this year, with commercial service expected by late 2016.
Iridium is a step closer to its Iridium Certus broadband service. The company said Wednesday it received the first broadband core transceiver prototypes for interoperability testing on the Iridium Next satellite network infrastructure. The prototypes will be used by manufacturing partners to design and build products for the aeronautical, maritime and land mobile markets that will be compatible with its broadband service. Next satellites are expected to start launching late this year, with commercial service expected by late 2016.