"Discover the new CES and register today,” beckoned CEA email promotions last week attempting to drum up midsummer enlistments for the 2015 show, which opens Jan. 6 for a four-day run. In reality, the substance of the Las Vegas show won’t change, but some of its layout and nomenclature will, said Karen Chupka, CEA senior vice president-events and conferences, in an interview.
The FCC Public Safety Bureau denied a request by Del Norte County, California, for a permanent waiver of the commission’s rule requiring the narrowbanding of all private land mobile radio licensees operating in the 150-174 MHz and 450-512 MHz bands. The county told the FCC it had completed the narrowbanding but as a result experienced a 40 percent loss of coverage in its operational area, the bureau said. Del Norte County told the commission it would have to build three to five towers to supplement its current two-tower system to restore its network to its previous capacity but doesn’t have the funding to do that. The county didn’t offer “sufficient facts” to justify a permanent waiver, the bureau said (http://bit.ly/1qHvon8). “We recognize the financial constraints Del Norte faces to construct additional towers, but this circumstance is not unusual or unique among licensees that have been subject to the narrowbanding requirement,” the bureau said. “While Del Norte’s financial constraints could weigh in favor of a temporary waiver to afford the County additional time to upgrade its system, they do not justify a permanent waiver.” The FCC has required licensees to use narrower channels to remedy congestion in the VHF and UHF bands.
CBP identified 16 applicants that the agency plans to enter reimbursable services agreements with, the agency said. CBP will notify the necessary congressional committees of the plans before the agreements are finalized, it said. CBP received 25 total applicants for the program, which allows for private companies to reimburse the agency for expanded services at certain locations, after requested applications in March (see 14040115), it said. CBP used a panel of CBP senior executives with "management and field expertise" to make the selections, it said.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for July 25 (Note that some may also be given separate headlines).
The FCC Media and Public Safety bureaus seek comment on an application and waiver request from WLNY Riverhead, New York, to “flashcut” its low-power TV station WLIG Plainview, also in New York, from analog Channel 17 to digital Channel 17. WLNY would like a waiver for land mobile station protection insofar as the FCC rule on land mobile assignments applies to the Channel 16 land mobile services in New York City, the bureaus said in a public notice posted Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1ocdw0y). The rule says an LPTV station or translator application won’t be accepted if it specifies a channel that is one channel above or below one of the land mobile assignments “and its field strength at the land mobile protected contour exceeds 76 dBu,” they said. WLIG is located within the land mobile protected contour, they said. The bureaus seek comment on the impact of the request on the land mobile service on adjacent Channel 16 in the New York metropolitan area, the bureaus said, with comments due Aug. 15, replies Aug. 29.
Chinese e-commerce company DHgate is aggressively stepping up its efforts to boost consumer-direct and factory-to-dealer sales in the U.S., Chief Operating Officer Noah Herschman told Consumer Electronics Daily on a press tour through New York Wednesday. Herschman, whose resume includes stints at the former AV specialty retail chain Tweeter, as well as at Amazon, eBay and Groupon, is part of a new management team at DHgate that wants to bypass traditional distribution channels and connect Chinese factories that want a bigger share of the revenue stream to U.S consumers and retailers, Herschman said.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for July 16 (Note that some may also be given separate headlines.)
If granted an exemption to test-fly drones outdoors on its Seattle property for a would-be package delivery service called Amazon Prime Air, Amazon “will effectively operate our own private model airplane field, but with additional safeguards that go far beyond those that FAA has long-held provide a sufficient level of safety for public model airplane fields,” the company told the Federal Aviation Administration in a petition.
If granted an exemption to test-fly drones outdoors on its Seattle property for a would-be package delivery service called Amazon Prime Air, Amazon “will effectively operate our own private model airplane field, but with additional safeguards that go far beyond those that FAA has long-held provide a sufficient level of safety for public model airplane fields,” the company told the Federal Aviation Administration in a petition.
If granted an exemption to test-fly drones outdoors on its Seattle property for a would-be package delivery service called Amazon Prime Air, Amazon “will effectively operate our own private model airplane field, but with additional safeguards that go far beyond those that FAA has long-held provide a sufficient level of safety for public model airplane fields,” the company told the Federal Aviation Administration in a petition.