The FCC Wireless Bureau gave Mobile Relay Associates part of what it asked for in its request for waiver of rules to allow MRA to operate on frequency pairs 451/456.0000, 451/456.00625 and 451/456.0125 MHz at locations in California, Florida and Nevada. The bureau noted that while the request was pending, other entities submitted waiver requests for use of one or more of the same frequency pairs or frequency pair 451/456.009375 MHz in various areas. The bureau approved a waiver “with respect to frequency pairs 451/456.00625 MHz, 451/456.009375 MHz, and 451/456.0125 MHz, but not with respect to frequency pair 451/456.0000 MHz,” said an order released Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1oBBxjN). The frequencies are located on the band edges between Broadcast Auxiliary Service spectrum and Industrial/Business Pool spectrum. The bureau said that since frequency pair 451/456.0000 MHz “would overlap BAS low power auxiliary station spectrum we conclude that the purpose of the rules would not be served by assigning that channel” to private land mobile radio use as requested by MRA.
LAS VEGAS -- The market for laser-based front projectors is being split with full red, green, blue (RGB) models moving into commercial movie theaters for the first time, while hybrids combining a blue laser with phosphors take aim at high-end home theaters, industry executives said Monday at Insight Media’s Display Summit as a prelude to the InfoComm show, which opens Wednesday.
The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a “non-punitive, voluntary effort,” and Comcast doesn’t want to “disrupt” its customers’ Internet access, said a company spokesman Monday. More information about CAS’s mitigation measures for repeat infringers is necessary to determine the viability of the program, said copyright experts in interviews (CD June 10 p9). The idea behind CAS is to have an “educational conversation” with consumers who infringe, said the Comcast spokesman. Repeat infringers using Comcast will receive a “persistent in-browser notification” until the customer contacts the ISP, he said. “Account termination is not an option,” he said. AT&T won’t “terminate a subscriber’s Internet service as part of the CAS program,” said a spokesman by email. AT&T’s mitigation measures “will temporarily redirect the user to a landing page that will require the account holder to review educational material on Copyright,” he said Monday. “Upon completion, the customer will be released from the landing page, and no further action will be taken under the program terms."
The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a “non-punitive, voluntary effort,” and Comcast doesn’t want to “disrupt” its customers’ Internet access, said a company spokesman Monday. More information about CAS’s mitigation measures for repeat infringers is necessary to determine the viability of the program, said copyright experts in interviews (WID June 10 p1). The idea behind CAS is to have an “educational conversation” with consumers who infringe, said the Comcast spokesman. Repeat infringers using Comcast will receive a “persistent in-browser notification” until the customer contacts the ISP, he said. “Account termination is not an option,” he said. AT&T won’t “terminate a subscriber’s Internet service as part of the CAS program,” said a spokesman by email. AT&T’s mitigation measures “will temporarily redirect the user to a landing page that will require the account holder to review educational material on Copyright,” he said Monday. “Upon completion, the customer will be released from the landing page, and no further action will be taken under the program terms."
RadioShack will close 200 stores in each of the next three years -- the maximum allowed without lender approval -- but is continuing talks with the firms in a move that could broaden the restructuring, an analyst said.
The advocacy group Public Citizen is urging constituents to pressure Senate lawmakers to prohibit funding for trade negotiations that undermine the Buy American Act, a decades-old law that requires the U.S. government to favor domestic industry for procurement purposes. The House passed on June 2 the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS), and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for 2015, HR-4660 (here), which includes an amendment to bar such negotiations. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., offered the amendment (see 14060202).
In concurrent news releases Thursday, Barnes & Noble said that a co-branded tablet deal with Samsung has allowed it to secure the third-party manufacturer partnership it has been seeking for color tablets (CED June 26/13 p4), and it has also completed a lease agreement with Google for Nook Media’s leased office space in Palo Alto that will slash its footprint from 208,000 square feet to 88,000 square feet.
An effort by Google to enter the satellite broadband business would likely be attractive to the FCC, some satellite industry professionals said in interviews. It will involve a fleet of 180 satellites that will supply regions across the globe that can’t be reached with terrestrial infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (http://on.wsj.com/1tAR0NU). If Google plans to become a satellite operator, one of the biggest hurdles will probably be ensuring that it won’t interfere with existing satellite services, the satellite industry professionals said. Google had no comment.
An effort by Google to enter the satellite broadband business would likely be attractive to the FCC, some satellite industry professionals said in interviews. It will involve a fleet of 180 satellites that will supply regions across the globe that can’t be reached with terrestrial infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (http://on.wsj.com/1tAR0NU). If Google plans to become a satellite operator, one of the biggest hurdles will probably be ensuring that it won’t interfere with existing satellite services, the satellite industry professionals said. Google had no comment.
The Commerce and State Departments released their respective spring 2014 regulatory agendas for the 2014 calendar year. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the State Department say they are planning several more rules related to export control reform, including more rules to transfer items from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List and a clarification of U.S. principal party in interest responsibilities in routed export transactions.